Blogging > How Media Should Think of Bloggers
Patterico has completely nailed the relationship between the media and their blogging watchdogs.
I have a very simple suggestion for mainstream media types who feel in any way threatened by bloggers: whenever you hear the word blogger, think: "reader."[...]
Print journalists: think of bloggers as your readers – because they are. They were your readers, with these same opinions, before they had blogs. Now they have a way to voice those opinions. If you’re really interested in your readers' opinions, you should be listening.
Or as Robbie Burns put it, "I wad some power the gifties gie us / To see ourselves as others see us."
Posted by lesjones