Bloggers and Bush

From a David Akin note:
Uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan has a column in this week's Time magazine about blogs and l'affaire CBS. (Oddly, it says posted Sept. 27, 2004 -- a week from now. How prescient of them!)


From that Andrew Sullivan column, here's some decent flame bait . . .

"... The critics of blogs cite their lack of professionalism. Piffle. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it isn't really a profession. It's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience, and you're all set. You get better at it merely by doing it—which is why fancy journalism schools are, to my mind, such a waste of time."

But then he says something much less risible:

"...Does this mean the old media is dead? Not at all. Blogs depend on the journalistic resources of big media to do the bulk of reporting and analysis. What blogs do is provide the best scrutiny of big media imaginable—ratcheting up the standards of the professionals, adding new voices, new perspectives and new facts every minute. The genius lies not so much in the bloggers themselves but in the transparent system they have created. In an era of polarized debate, the truth has never been more available."

The whole column is at: AndrewSullivan