Mediabistro has an article that inquires if blogs are the great new way to get news, or just the best new way to spread buzz.
Word-of-mouth is still the best form of publicity, but word-of-blog may be becoming a close second. Once the province of rambling writers, the blog no longer plays a bit part in the news-making process. Nor is it simply a digitized version of "Page Six"—a gossipy portal for name-dropping, muckraking, and skewering celebs. Blogs have emerged as a filter for the good, the bad, and the trendy—less "a genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets," as Lev Grossman and Anita Hamilton wrote in a Time piece on blogging this week, than a publicity portal to mainstream news—what The Atlantic's James Fallows calls "information middlemen."
PS - MediaBistro, please add an RSS feed. Thx.
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