Jon Lauck
Media ‘dinosaurs’ criticize bloggers
Like most South Dakotans, I’m a Tom Brokaw fan. Unfortunately, our native son has become a bit too defensive about the mistakes of the media dinosaurs. In response to blogger criticism of CBS, Brokaw recently said at an event for the New Yorker that “What I think is highly inappropriate is what’s going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that is quite outrageous.
Bloggers broke the story of Rathergate
Since our last discussion about the rise of blogs and the erosion of the mainstream media (MSM, in blogosphere-speak), much has happened. John Hinderaker, a Watertown native and now a blogger in Minneapolis, made some major news on his blog Powerline. After Dan Rather reported on 60 Minutes about some memos from the early 1970s which purported to show that President Bush was derelict in his National Guard duties, Hinderaker and other bloggers went to work.
Blogs challenge traditional media by going straight to the consumer
This year will be remembered as the Year of the Blog. What are blogs? They are personal Web sites updated and maintained by bloggers, or web loggers, who comment on the news, deconstruct the news, and make news, all while providing helpful links to readers.
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