Eric Salas emailed me a link about this article from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page written by Joseph Rago:
The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.
Of course, once a technosocial force like the blog is loosed on the world, it does not go away because some find it undesirable. So grieving over the lost establishment is pointless, and kind of sad. But democracy does not work well, so to speak, without checks and balances. And in acceding so easily to the imperatives of the Internet, we’ve allowed decay to pass for progress.
Read the complete article here.
If this guy didn’t have a spot on the WSJ (or any MSM page for that matter), he would be blogging and on our side by now. Merry Christmas to you too, Mr. Rago.
Maybe he’s just sad because no one reads his blog. So he writes for MSM. Hehehe.