Here are a couple of good pro-blog pieces by Jonah Goldberg and Ralph Kinney Bennett at TCS: An excerpt from Bennet:
Bloggers are the best thing that has ever happened to journalism.They make a good reporter look better. They expose the phonies, the poseurs, the fast-writing conmen, with the speed of light.
They give the journalist a greater access to more information and informational context than ever before.
They provide swift exposure to varied points of view, and, most importantly, a constant, sometimes rough, but always important gauge of a reporter's skill, judgment, industriousness and integrity.
Never before has weak reporting, biased reporting, dishonest reporting, or lazy reporting been more swiftly exposed.
Indeed, the whole idea of whether journalism is indeed a profession -- or just a happy combination of craft, curiosity, cleverness and confidence tricks -- is being tested for the first time out there in the ether.
If you don't get it, start here.
Posted by dan at March 6, 2005 11:07 PM