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Someone who cannot distinguish between excellent writing and sloppy writing on blogs, should not be in journalism at all, traditional or electronic. Wade through the garbage and find what is worthwhile. This applies to all forms of communications, including the Wall Street Journal.

The writer seems a little deficient in introspection, as the MSM generally is when commenting on its upstart competition.

Congressman Billybob

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Yep. Getting good information never was easy. For my part, I find journalists I trust, and pay attention to them. Burn me once, and you are unlikely to get a second chance (unless you fess up early and clean up your act). I'll take Claudia Rosett, Michelle Malkin, Michael Yon, Charles Johnson, etc. and stack them up against any set of M$M reporters you could name.

Someone who cannot distinguish between excellent writing and sloppy writing on blogs, should not be in journalism at all, traditional or electronic.

I can empathize a bit with his position here. I am appalled by the poor quality I find on most blogs. Of course there are some truly excellent ones out there, but often they are terribly hard to find.

A bigger problem for me is the blogs that are mostly good. The writing isn't bad, the opinions are pretty good, but the fact checking is only 90%. I have been bitten pretty hard a few times by reading blogs, doing a little preliminary checking on my own which seemed to support the blogs facts, and then trying to talk to democrat friends about the problems with their political beliefs.

It only takes a few facts that are slightly off to convince someone you are unreliable. I have a terrific memory, and I've had to avoid a lot of blogs to prevent myself from remembering something that is only almost right.

-paridel