Decius wrote:
] ] "I think that bloggers have put the issue of
] ] professionalism under attack," said Thomas McPhail,
] ] professor of media studies at the University of
] ] Missouri-St. Louis, who argues that journalists should be
] ] professionally credentialed. "They have no pretense to
] ] objectivity. They don't cover both sides."
]
] This article seems to be pissing people off. I think its good.
] If the press isn't spinning you you're not doing something
] useful.

Okay, then George W. Bush, Paris Hilton, Scott Peterson, and Britney Spears are the most useful people in America. Give me a break. Bloggers are the kind of armchair media that turns the internet into a cybertower of babel. Can't wait till the terrorists nail our powergrids so I no longer have to listen to, or read, misinformation.

RE: The New York Times - The Internet: Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps