Let the Battle Begin

CBS News, once known for its uncompromising journalism, is now reduced to taking potshots at bloggers: CBS News | Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism | November 8, 2004

This is not surprising...the old line will always denigrate the "new kids on the block" until the very last minute, at which point they will act like they were down with it all along. It was just a couple of years ago that the old media giants were dismissing Matt Drudge's "Drudge Report" as some type of worthless scandal ezine...now it's just as mainstream as Fox News (and just as sensational).

What the old guys don't get is that the "blogosphere" is much more than a few bloggers writing about the news. This is a very difficult concept for them to wrap their minds around. The attached article uses very derogatory language, comparing bloggers to "parasites" and blogs to high school newspapers. Well, the truth is that many bloggers ARE high school age...what of it? I've yet to come across a blog that claims to be a site of journalistic integrity (not that they don't exist), but that has never been the point of "blogging". These are, at base, personal journals, FULL of unapologetic subjectivity. If we didn't provide our point of view, there would be no point at all.

More later...
Paul