More Journalists Kissing Up To The Blogkids

from the telling-people-what-they-already-know dept

When major newspapers finally got around to discovering the blog phenomenon they often did so with a touch of disdain. Over the past year, it seems that the blogkids are starting to get more respect from the journalists who often steal their news from some of the more popular blogs. The latest is this article from a News.com editor saying that blogs came of age during the tragedy last week. They may have been raw, pretentious and flat-out wrong, but they were there and they were interesting, and every once in a while they provided some insight.

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    Oh just great!

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 21st, 2001 @ 12:44pm

    More fodder for the Dave Winer's already over-inflated ego.

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    Bollocks

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    blogger, Sep 24th, 2001 @ 12:20am

    As a weblogger myself and regular scanner of many others I can confidently repeat the subject of this message. Most blogs had very little of interest on them. Mostly it was the same stuff repeated everywhere or just pointless ranting.

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