Minding the Media: Journalists and Bloggers

The link below is to an article from the August/Spetember 2005 issue of American Journalism Review that, according to the article abstract, "emphasizes the significance of bloggers to journalists. The ascendant blogosphere has rattled the news media with its tough critiques and nonstop scrutiny of their reporting. But the relationship between the two is more complex than it might seem. Journalists are in the hot seat, their feet held to the flames by citizen bloggers who believe mainstream media are no more trustworthy than the politicians and corporations they cover, that journalists themselves have become too lazy, too cloistered, too self-righteous to be the watchdogs they once were. The charges of bloggers against journalism begin with gross negligence: omission, laziness, herd-think. However, bloggers do more than skewer journalists; journalists have come to depend on them as diggers and aggregators of information, conduits of public opinion and even media and policy pundits."

Palser, B. (2005). Journalism's backseat drivers. American Journalism Review, 27(4), 42-51