One of our newest blogs, Blogflict, has an interesting angle on “Eliot Mess,” praising the New York Times online.
It was major news across all mediums, with BlogBurst publishing partners USA Today and Reuters both incorporating bloggers’ perspectives into the story.
Here’s but a few of the BlogBurst bloggers who weighed-in:
Hypocrisy- They name is Spitzer (jobsanger)
Political Perceptions: The Spitzer Effect (WSJ.com: Washington Wire)
Eliot’s Mess: Spitzer scandal details emerge (The Carpetbagger Report)
My Blogburst friends!
This is a major breakthrough! What a wonderful development. It signals the following to me:
1. Bloggers are being utilized in mass media reporting–not just staff writers blogging ala Anderson Cooper 360
2. Incorporating bloggers as commentators inside a story brings down the myth that professional writing requires a journalism degree, a union card, and membership into the “secret” society
3. Citizen Journalism is growing as the revolution of transparent information reporting is popularizing the world wide trend that everyone has a voice
I can certainly vouch for that. My own blog, “The ‘Skeeter Bites Report” (http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com) has been posted to manstream news media Web sites on a number of occasions in recent weeks, most notably, Reuters, the Chicago Sun-Times and — on at least one occasion — the New York Post (The latter being a surprise, as the Post is not part of the BlogBurst network and as I’m unabashedly left of center and the Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, is unabashedly right-wing).