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Thu 03 Mar 2007Notes on the dangers of collaborative journalismAmerica at LargeNot quite two months ago the owner-publishers of a couple of fly-by-night internet sports sites called ColdHardFootballFacts.com and BostonSportsMedia.com issued a joint communique in which they invited their readers to besiege the editors of the Boston Globe with e-mails demanding the dismissal of sports reporter Ron Borges."They're already chiselling a Ron Borges bust and reserving a special place of dishonour for it in the Hack Hall of Fame," read the online entreaty.