Unless you’re sharing your meals with Osama in a Pakistani cave, you’ve read Matt Welch’s deal on blogs for CJR. My favorite part:
Are bloggers journalists? Will they soon replace newspapers?
The best answer to those two questions is: those are two really dumb questions; enough hot air has been expended in their name already.
A more productive, tangible line of inquiry is: Is journalism being produced by blogs, is it interesting, and how should journalists react to it? The answers, by my lights, are “yes,” “yes,” and “in many ways.”
The concluding graf is good too, but I don’t want to spoil your cave-dwelling fun.
I give Matt an “A” on this excellent composition.