Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
I'm not going to search for it, but I'm pretty sure that I was told somewhere on this topic that the reputation of the websites is irrelevant as long as they show the right facts. Therefore your attempt at discrediting a non-reputable site that I found ina 10 second google-search is irrelevant...]
Ideally, yes, but in practice no. As Aristotle noted quite a while back, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are all routes of appeal that function persuasively for the audience. Hyperbolic blogs etc. arouse the passions (pathos) but generally fall short in credibility (ethos). So even when they are relating facts accurately and making reasonable conclusions therefrom (logos), their credibility still gets called into question and may well undercut the reader/viewer's trust in message.