Blogs are mirrors of the “mainstream” media.
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When reading the Slashdot-article about Blogs being the future of journalism, I replied with the following text;
“From what I’ve seen, the topics discussed in Blogs aren’t results of investigative journalism, they are in most cases (excluding the “what I ate for breakfast blogs”) discussing events seen in the news.
A clear example of this is the genocide in Darfur and that it was an almost complete silence within the Blog-community, and this was connected to the silence in the mainstream media. As soon as the mainstream media started to air stories about Darfur, the Blogs caught up and got active in this topic.
Is this bad? Well, it’s not “bad” per say, it’s just a hint about Blogs not being the future of journalism, what it is is a brilliant way to spread and take part of information.”
Or as Anna Marie Cox, author of Wonkette said it so well; “A revolution requires that people leave their house.”
Note that this post here on hypocrisy.nu is a result of my thesis. 