— Your latest old media take on blogs is at Just Another Cultural Co-Op? / Blogging hits the mainstream, for better or worse.
“People mostly compare their favorite bloggers to the boring and predictable columnists on the op-ed pages,” says Matt Welch, one of the writers behind LA Examiner. “It sheds light on what newspapers have gotten progressively worse at doing: giving readers lively and relevant personalities to read and interact with.”
They quote Matt Welch, Ken Layne, Billy the Quick, and some other folks. It’s pretty much a “just the facts, ma’am” piece, but it does highlight the personality vacuum in big media that created the need for blogs.