Blogs are the rubbish bins of mass media

Several Greek blogs published the first exit polls for the EU elections even before the polling stations had closed. The daily To Vima comments: "The methods that some Greek blogs resorted to as regards the results of the exit polls and the EU election in general show how blogs and the Internet can influence media coverage. Are they information media or disinformation media and propaganda? How can they influence votes, and what interests do they serve? … Regardless of where the truth lies, the way the phenomenon has developed in our country has made the little blogosphere a rubbish bin for the mass media. … It's about a parallel world in which disinformation and populism reign supreme and in which the dreams and fantasies of the administrators are depicted as 'exclusive information'."

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