Regina Lawrence in The Oregonian writes a blog-bashing essay maintaining that when mainstream media mimics blogs, content will dilute.
Will the millions of blogs mutate into mainstream media, she frets, and “ultimately become the very thing they love to rail against?”
Blogs, she generalizes wildly and without factual data, “aren’t ‘mainstream’ in their sensibility. Virtually all are partisan sites for commentary first and foremost.”
The good news she points out: newspaper cub reporters and j-school students are being coached on blogging.
With a more MSM-like blogosphere, we could get a more independent style of journalism freed from corporate constraints.
But — here comes her blog bashing premise — without the commitment of time and resources required for serious journalism, all we might get from either is more heat without more light: a lot more talk, but little of substance to say.”
Kinda like Ms. Lawrence?
Orregonian: Blogs Dangerous to Real Journalism
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In 1994, Time Magazine explained why the internet would never go mainstream. “It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals.”
I just went to the link you posted for the Oregon Newspaper, and they polled me for age and zip without even letting me see a page. What do you think about that? Here’s what I told them.
Hi,
I’m in your target Gen-x crowd. I was headed to a link on your site, first time visit, and I am polled for demographic data. You know what? I won’t be back. I will volunteer that information so you can serve me better AFTER I have seen what you have to offer. Even when I hear from a friend you have something good! I still am offended by the requriement. Ask me after 3 visits, why don’t you? Set a cookie like everyone else. You are not the Times, and be thankful you aren’t. Don’t offend me the first time I visit. I won’t be back. You just lost a live one.
You are so right. And that’s why http://www.bugmenot.com is such a great site.