There’s a story in the .com section of The Washington Post today called New Kids On the Blog. It started out as a nonarticle, but picked up nicely on page E6. While reading the article, this popped out as quotable and thought provoking:
While blogs are a significant publishing phenomenon, I see them as entirely different from professional news organizations, which have paid staffs that ferret out and vet information according to established principles of fairness, accuracy and truth.
There is always tension between traditional reporters, BigPubs, and the weblog community. However, she did manage to quote both Evan and Dave, which tends to be par for the course in the “Yet Another Weblog Article” formula.