They are, alas, not up to the accurate standards of “reliable old media.” After all, if it weren’t for the Times, we wouldn’t know that global warming had caused the Alaska temperature to rise 7 degrees in thirty years, would we? Or that the U.S. war to liberate Afghanistan had caused the deaths of so many innocent people. Others, mercifully, are beginning to understand what this new journalism in a new medium is really all about. Check out this piece from American Heritage, which compares today’s bloggers with the founders of modern newspaper journalism. U.S. News’ John Leo also sees the significance of the blogosphere, especially in keeping tabs on old media distortions and agendas:
Keep an eye on bloggers. The main arena for media criticism is not going to be books, columns, or panel discussions, and it certainly won’t be journalism schools. It will be the Internet.
But even J-Schools are teaching blogging now. Vive la revolution.
FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL, REMOVE SADDAM: A simple, persuasive and powerful case for war against Iraq in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times.
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