From today's Chicago Tribune:
It was a shock to the tight-knit blogging community when two respected blogs written by frontline reporters for CNN and Time magazine were shut down by the journalists' employers, and when another hugely popular war blog was found to have lifted several postings from another source. Trouble is, some mainstream media organizations don't really know what to do about blogs.
"Blogs have gotten a lot more publicity and they have, I think, brought people ways of learning about things that are faster and less irritating than the 24-hour news channels," says Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor whose 2-year-old Web site, www.instapundit.com, often gets more than 200,000 hits a day. The television reportage of CNN's Kevin Sites, whose bosses halted his blogging, is "good, but his blog [www.kevinsites.net] is great — his audio posts had an Edward R. Murrow quality," Reynolds says. "I think CNN was crazy to shut that down," Reynolds says. "I just find blog writing more intimate and more compelling — it's like newspaper writing used to be. Somehow in an evil conspiracy between [grammarians] Strunk and White and corporate management, all the blood and personality has been drained out of newspaper writing. Mike Royko would have been a blogger if he had been in the right generation."
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