I'd love to see someone like Pew do an analysis of where all this info on the web comes from. Bloggers blog and re-blog info ultimately traceable to Reuters and the NYT. Much of broadcast news is picked off the front page of that morning's Times.
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True.
Which means that blogs aren't news sources. Although there are still knuckleheads who think otherwise, I believe this has become the state of the art view.
Blogs (to the extent they're still relevant) are, at their best, outlets for experts to offer specialist interpretations of information gathered by print journalists. This is what's happening at "Baseline Scenario" and "Lenin's Tomb" and "Informed Comment" and "Climate Feedback" and that new Henwood blog all the kids are talking about.
We're well past the time when it makes sense to bash blogs for not being news sources. That's yesterday's argument.
Today's argument is over the future of journalism (the thing worth defending, newspapers only being a medium) in an environment in which the flawed, but still useful print giants are shrinking at a startling rate of speed.
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