CBS News worries that “blogs are providing a new and unregulated medium for politically motivated attacks.” Unlike journalists, the argument goes, bloggers are apt to engage in campaign politicking (this, remember, from CBS). Jonathan Last, in a different context, suggests that some kinds of opinion journalism already present the same quandries about journalism as political advocacy. James Lileks thinks blogs will replace opinion journalism altogether:
The Internet is going to make gigs like this obsolete, once enough people realize that some guy in his basement is capable of turning out commentary as insightful as a tenured eminence who was handed a column 30 years ago and has spent the last 10 coasting on a scoop from the Reagan years.
Lynne Cheney reads them.
— Steven
The Dish 