Truly great or amusingly amateur. That sums up the gulf between the observations of Dave Winer and The Washington Post's Leslie Walker about blogs as journalism. This either-or row reminds me a bit of the "will books die" debates during the dawn of the Web.
Chris Gulker gets it right on how blogging and journalism fit:
"Will blogs kill newspapers and journalism? I don't think so. Will blogs change journalism? Already happening. Will blogs change the economics of, say, newspapers? I think so....
"Blogs will evolve: it will be interesting to see if they can avoid the sins of 'pro' journalism like 'pack coverage' and aversity to risky, creative ways to tell stories. And journalism, too, will evolve as blogs rise, and begin to tell stories more quickly, and sometimes, better than big media."
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