When I raised this question before on a similar thread, someone suggested to me that local governments can post news on websites and then people won't need small weekly papers in their communities anymore either.
I don't know about where you live, but the communists who scare me most are the communists on my county commission and city council. I feel better knowing that the local paper is sitting at the meetings.
You worry too much, because you've never grasped Adam Smith. You honestly think that no bloggers will sit at those meetings and self-publish their accounts? and then other bloggers will publish their own accounts? And then you will be able to compare three (or more) sources for yourself and decide what the truth is?
And what will you be missing? The "objectivity" of the reporter? How did you know he/she was objective? Because the 'editor" cleared the story? How did you know the editor was objective?
You didn't. The reporter took the government's version, and wrote his own. The blogger takes the government's version, and writes his own.
The ONLY difference in all this is that the editing process is out in the open, and subject to scrutiny. That editing process was the single proprietary product of the MSM which they sold for value. Now, it is not that it is being DISCARDED (that is what they want you to believe) but that it is being DECENTRALIZED.
The real struggle is that They don't understand decentralized processes. That is the real intellectual struggle going on in newsrooms across the country, and it is political: conservatives understand the invisible hand and believe in it; liberals don't.