I am with you. I like news. I like opinion. But IMO the blog thing is getting out of hand.
I click on articles thinking they are intelligent opinion, only to find out it is simply some guy ranting about one thing or another.
Ditto
First, I hate the blogs that are posted as “news/activism”, mostly it’s the financial stuff from various blogs like ZeroHedge.
Second, I hate the bloggers who take a real news story, excerpt it on their blog, and then post their blog’s excerpt here, inviting people to go to their blog, where they just have the excerpt from the news site. That’s fine if you want your blog to be a news site excerpt, but why not just post the actual news link here? (we know the answer, trying to drive up google ad revenue).
Third, I hate the bloggers who post excerpts from their blogs that tell you nothing about what the story is, hoping to trick you into going to their blog to read the full entry.
Fourth, I have a true disdain for bloggers who put the source as a real news source, but the link is really to their blog, so you think they are sending you to a news site and you end up on their blog.
Last, I have contempt for the bloggers who specifically ask you to respond IN THEIR BLOG, and worse who will never respond to anything you post in their threads here, as if it is too hard for them to read responses to what they have written.
However, for most of these, I think you just need to de-select “bloggers and personal” from the list of things you want to look at. Having never done this myself, I don’t know exactly how it is done.