It seems to be a distinction of no importance.
A blog is merely a reporter publishing his own reports. Cutting out the middle men so to speak.
If the blogger is publishing mere vanity or fake news then yes they should be scorned. We get enough of that from the mainstream media.
In this case, however, the blogger is publishing a credible report. This is better news coverage than we get from Fox news. Why shouldn’t it be in news?
After all, breitbart started as a blog. As did most conservative news sites.
This guy did it correctly. He wrote a good news article and posted the whole thing.
A car can drive on a runway.
That does not make it an airplane.