you must know that blogs are a threat to all that is pure and good in journalism.
The big engines of established journalism have left their readers in the dark, recently, on the controversy leading up to the resignation of a senior White House adviser who publicly backed the charge that the former President of the U.S. was complicit in the murder of the 3,000 American citizens. To the extent that the major media covered the story at all, it made it sound as though the staffer was guilty of not much worse than talking like the average 13 year old.
If you inform yourself strictly at the linen and silver table of established journalism, then you are no doubt a little confused this morning by the story of the Senate vote to defund Acorn, the community organizing outfit that is lavishly funded by the government.
There is a lot of news out there that the behemoths of traditional journalism are not covering. Fortunately, there are ill-mannered bloggers and alternative outlets willing to take up the slack.
There's a reason the big newspapers are going out of business - they're not the only game in town anymore, and haven't been for quite some time. What's been interesting to watch is the selective blinders put on to the real news that's out there, and then to witness the self-flagellation of newspaper veterans decrying the new media. It's quite possible that their inaction in terms of covering the news has helped hasten their demise - but I suspect that type of self-reflection is entirely missing from the soon-to-be-RIFFED newspaper staffs at venerable institutions like the NYT.
Posted by: Chris Campion | September 17, 2009 at 12:22 AM