For an entertaining rant against what he calls "blog mush", read "Blogged down in Web fantasy" by veteran journalist Nick Coleman in the US journal, the Star Tribune, September 29, 2004.
Here is a flavour:
"A lot of the attack against the mainstream media is coming from bloggers, which is like astronomers being assaulted by people who swear that aliens force them to have sex with Martian.....
Blogs, are to journalism what ticks are to elephants. Ticks may make the elephants nuts, but that doesn't mean they will replace them...
Do bloggers have the credentials of real journalists? No. Bloggers are hobby hacks, the Internet version of the sad loners who used to listen to police radios in their bachelor apartments and think they were involved in the world....."
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