‘blogs are not the end-it-all of journalism

Online or otherwise.

This excellent article by Andrew Orlowski, the San Francisco correspondent of the excellent British IT-zine “The Register” debunks this delusion, the key argument being that weblog authors do not have the financial resources or the determination to dig out wrongdoing by the powerful. He also hilariously deflates US newspapers’ sanctimonious sense of self-importance.


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