Another Weblog Bashing News Article
by on June 5th, 2004 
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What irritates me most about these newspaper writers that like to call weblogs “self-important drivel” is that they visit a few personal blogs and then determine that all weblogs are similar. I think the bottom line is the press is worried that weblogs are going to take away readership. They believe it’s completely unorthodox to get information from anywhere but the established media.
Some argue that blogs are a new form of journalism, a David with an independent view to the more established media conglomerate’s Goliath, if you like.
I guess with newspapers, you just have to wade through the drivel to find the good stuff. Seems like I heard that somewhere recently…
This column’s approach is like taking a page at random out of the newspaper, scanning it for 10 seconds, and saying “I hate grocery store ads. Why would anyone bother reading a newspaper if this is what they’re about?”