Cant agree with you more.

George Carlin has the best advice when he talked about the first Iraq war. Never trust what any government tells you. Or their corporate donors.

From there you can basically extrapolate that to mean the blogosphere, as that is just new media indirectly from the same donors.

Always check who pays the salary of anyone with a platform. Because 95% of them are grifters or state sponsored at worst, or useful idiots at best.