Well, that depends on the subject and who you ask. It does seem everybody wants to know where the “Do no Evil” company stands. One day there’s a report that Google is maybe going to change its stand for net neutrality. The next there’s a report that it’s definitely not. So who got the scoop on that? The New York Times? Washington Post? Washington Times? The Sun?

Nope: a blogger at Huffington Post:

But once again, the Net naysayers got it wrong. Surprised by what appeared to be a Google about face, we actually called the company to ask them where they stand. (You would hope that any good reporter would have done the same.)

“Google’s position on Net Neutrality has not changed one bit,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich told us. We asked him to put it in writing. He emailed us this:

“We strongly believe that Congress must take action to ensure a free and open Internet, in the face of a highly concentrated broadband market. Furthermore, Google’s position — which we testified to last year in Congress — is that broadband network operators should not be permitted to charge any content owner extra fees or extra tolls. We continue to support net neutrality legislation by Senators Dorgan and Snowe, and by Representative Markey, and we remain steadfast members of the coalition supporting net neutrality.”

— Don’t Believe the Hype: Google Still Backs Net Neutrality by Timothy Karr, Huffington Post, Wed Mar 14, 6:33 PM ET

Are the only good reporters left bloggers? Maybe not, but what happens to the bloggers who do report if net neutrality goes away?

-jsq