Christian Science Monitor
by Dante Chinni

08/08/05

Mainstream journalism is running scared. It's watching its audience numbers decline and its public trust numbers drop. Newspapers, magazines, and network television news have been shaken by major scandals. The media have seen the future and it is blogging. Or at least that's the story this year. 'Mainstream journalism,' however you want to define it, has been under siege so long it's hard to keep track of all the people, things, and outlets that were or are still going to destroy it. Blogs, or weblogs -- websites on which a person or a group of people opines about events, reports what's been heard, or simply links to other sites (many of which are also blogs) -- are the latest concern among journalists who look at them with curiosity and fear...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0809/p09s01-codc.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp