Time Magazine discusses blogs
TIME.com: Meet Joe Blog — Jun. 21, 2004
This Time article is interesting main-stream coverage of the blog phenomenon. It grudgingly admits that blogs are an increasingly popular source of news for a growing number of people, but its headline tries to dismiss blogs with this subtitle: “they’re fast, funny and totally biased.” But the article itself recognizes that
when
the mainstream press glosses over something significant and regular journalists bury the lead, “bloggers dig it right back up.”
Time likes to think of itself as part of the “established pantheon of American media” but this quote reveals a lot about that “pantheon”:
“Because we’re not trying to sell magazines or papers, we can afford to assail our readers,” says Andrew Sullivan, a contributor to TIME and the editor of andrewsullivan.com. “I don’t have the pressure of an advertising executive telling me to lay off. It’s incredibly liberating.”
The article does a pretty good job of summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of blogs that focus on news and policy and blogs as a way of getting news. Thanks to
Unmediated for pointing to the story!