MSM = Mainstream Media.
Railing against blogs due to a large number of sorry blogs is like railing against poetry due to a large number of sorry poems or against email due to a large number of sorry messages. Blogs are in part a genre and in part a medium (content-management system tools offered -- often at no cost -- by commercial businesses). One doesn't rail against a genre or a medium just because a large majority of pieces produced in or through it are mediocre or worse. Technorati claims that it is "[c]urrently tracking 44.8 million sites and 2.6 billion links" -- probably, by now a majority of blogs are written in languages most LBO-talk subscribers can't read and therefore can't really evaluate.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>