Blogging and Journalism

From Michael Hiltzik, who debuted a new L.A. Times-sanctioned blog today:

[...]the silly debate over whether blogging is "journalism." It all depends. Some bloggers report and research their items as aggressively as some newspaper, magazine and TV journalists. Some apply careful journalistic scrutiny to reporting done by others. Still others simply masticate news reports first served elsewhere, removing the flavor until the reports reach a form they consider politically or ideologically digestible. At the bottom of the barrel are blogs engaging in persiflage and lies. The blogosphere per se is just another information medium.

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