In addition to the quote
posted on Blogger's main page:
"All in all, I've revised my earlier views about the usefulness of blogging, moving full circle from my earlier position. Yes, there's still a lot of chaff out there, and it's the reader's responsibility to sift and choose. But in the best spirit of grassroots participation, these new information gatekeepers are helping to rewrite the rules."
...from this article, the writer goes on to say, "Not that they are about to displace the main organs of journalism. I don't think any serious blogger would make that claim."
Spoken like a true self-preservationist, suckling on the teat of journalism's main organ.
Journalism is a joke in most of its present propagandized incarnations. It is so bad in fact that I don't think any serious journalist would actually claim that as a title. He'd probably have a weblog and call himself a blogger.
Good journalism is out there to be sure, but too many so-called journalists are nothing but ad copy writers, which is in itself an honorable profession -- writers must make a living too. But when ad copy is passed off as journalism, and when the stuff being hawked is political manipulation -- the basest of snake-oils -- that my dears is called propaganda. They can call themselves whatever they want if it helps them swallow their own saliva without retching. But if you won't tell me the real stories, which I find almost exclusively by reading weblogs, then you might as well be lying.
