jlee562
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"Who needs trained professional journalism? We have these like really cool blogs to tell us everything we want to know and stuff."
The trade of journalism has been on the decline for quite some time in fact. Hence the NYT admitting that they abdicated their professional responsibilities in the run up to the Iraq war, and more recently, asking their readers if they should fact check things politicians say.
While I don't mean to throw all journalists under the bus, the media has not functioned as "the fourth estate" in quite some time, with different organizations moving towards different ideological spheres.
At the same time, while many blogs are simply aggregators of content, the best ones are becoming more adept at conveying news in the always-connected-24-hour-news-cycle environment which we now inhibit. Blogs have become a far more content rich source of dialogue, fact checking, and debate than the mainstream media has, as long as you're looking in the right place.