craigslist - the new drudge report?

[jaguar]

At least the bloggers never pretended to be something they weren't.

BULLFUCKINGSHIT!

The 'period of innocence' of blogging lasted about as long as a virgin on prom night, bloggers are if anything, even less accountable than hacks - they don't even have pretences of being objective or unbiased, lots of bloggers are paid to express certain opnions or push certain products, if it's a major blog you can pretty much assume this is the case. This doesn't stop 'blogsphere' thinking it's some kind of grassroots movement when in reality it's just another mouthpiece for the same 'opinionmakers' who buy time on every other mediascape. The sooner why whole scene gets the fuck over itself the better. Don't even get me started of fucking podcasting, what a fucking joke. It's the same breakdown as blogs, mostly people mumbling into their $10 logitech mikes about their choice of breakfast cereal and a whole bunch of glossy professionally produced elongated advertisments.

It was never wise to trust any media source but I perfer things like the BBC, The Economist and The Independant to 'blogsphere' for information any day. if anything the irony is now, you pay for what you get with media. The good stuff costs money, the economist is 3 quid a week, the financial times isn't exactly cheap and I think The Independant is the most expensive daily.