It must be true; I agree with it

CNN, Steve Jobs, and a dodgy rumour

The ''mainstream" press is alive with such pieces these days.

Thing is, like the political commentariat's odd, slavish support of bunker-mentality policy, when they do so on, ironically, their blogs, they get rightly slaughtered.

The lazy, arrogant notion that we should believe anything we read any more is spectacular, especially from the BBC, and that there is this odd notion that sources might not be trustedworthy in not posting porkies without being verified is a professional own goal of the highest order.

Guardian - Slavish reporters join Microsoft in cloud cuckoo land

I'm not sure, but it seems some in the Guardian at least are seeing Aunty as a relative whose marble retention might suggest some distance is required.