The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage.Apparently this young journalist has never read the news as she is wrote out here in the dingles. Yes, the MSM in the BIG CITY may have some real journalists spending weeks on a single subject... and then, if they work for the BIG PAPERS, they can even editorialize without catching multiple levels of the underworld from their BIG-TIME EDITORS (okay, so the last link is to history. It's still worth considering, IMO).
Out here in the sticks, the news our MSM regularly follows up on has to do with such high-impact stuff as the increase in the number of spider webs on the editor's dashboard, the changing of a menu at the editor's favorite restaurant, and the occasional piece of information we all need, such as "'An Inconvenient Truth' is not propaganda." snicker snicker.
Actually, as one reads almost all the way at the end of his riff on blogs, Rago writes,
Certainly the MSM, such as it is, collapsed itself. It was once utterly dominant yet made itself vulnerable by playing on its reputed accuracy and disinterest to pursue adversarial agendas.
In that statement lies the ultimate truth for why the amateurs are gaining ground on the so-called professional news media. The MSM stopped being an outlet for journalism, and became a wolf PAC, more interested in selling its agenda than in distributing actual news. They abandoned the original principle of disseminating information, and went for propagandizing, without even bothering to check to see if their sources were legitimate.
The MSM may be "big-time", but until they learn to clean up their acts, I expect I'll be getting more real news from the bloggers than I will from the networks.
And I seriously doubt if I will ever find anything useful in my local paper. Ever. Ever ever ever.
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