Answering Back to the New Media Using the Internet

This analysis of the interplay between journalism and blogging is a fair analysis of today's world of print, audio and video that we now live in. Although the article seems written mostly for the people who are in media/publishing or intense bloggers, the lessons presented by examples are clear:

• blogging has pried open the sardine can of traditional journalism and exposed the biases with which the sardines are packed and canned.
• blogging has on the whole been good for journalism because the 'audience' forces traditional journalists to an awareness of their biases. If they pretend they don't have them, they can be made to seem incredulous.
• any pretense of objectivity so often held by reporters, journalists, editors and bloggers has vanished in transparency.
• facts awash in points of view are now de rigeur.
• journalists and bloggers can both be navel-gazers. Though many bloggers are active, journalists and others deadly serious about it spend far more time than do most mortals.
• credibility is always questioned when different viewpoints are brought to a set of facts.
• on balance, blogging is a positive outflow of communications brought n by technology.