No Time for Big-Media Illusions

UPDATED

The Associated Press' Technology Editor, Frank Bajak, has written a nicely nuanced overview of last week's Harvard gathering on blogging, journalism and credibility. Key quote:

The bloggers aren't quite overrunning the newsroom, but they are engaging established media in keyboard-to-keyboard combat that's benefiting public discourse and making the journalism ``franchises'' more accountable.

Meanwhile, Slate's Jack Schafer debunks away but veers toward outright condescension in this piece about the same event. On a semi-private mail list for attendees (which I won't quote directly), the fur is flying, needless to say.

Comments

[Susan]

Er, so does that mean, without blogs, things would be EVEN WORSE?

*gulp*

[Anna]

Wow...that's the first SJ Mercury News article I've read in ages.

Has SJ Merc really dispensed with the "registration required" barrier, or is it just a recent quirk of my system or theirs?

If they have...excellent. They get it.