Good.

Sure.l You bloggers will sit through days of debate at city hall, cover the courts, check with the cops to see if there's been crime overnight, read through national budgets and parliamentary bills, attend parliamentary committees, travel with the Prime Minister and other leaders, staff foreign bureaus, etc? And all on your own dime? Good luck with that.

Didn't read the links, or watch the video eh, Kitty?

Professional Bloggers ?

There are and have been for years now a few very successful bloggers who actually do make their living writing and aggregating news and commentary.

IMO ... most of them excel at what they do and stand as stark examples in contrast to the abject failures in the "professional class" of manstream flacks and hacks.

The stark difference between professional urnalist and bloggers is that the bloggers give us a refreshing opinion and the truth. I do not trust liberal media, the truth is not a defence when they report their propaganda.

The New York Times is a good newspaper.

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/08/glory-oys-oops-ny-times-article-on-bruce-springstein-sparks-hilarity/

Just finishing up at Journalism school Kitty? Feel a little threatened?
There are already citizen journalists who do exactly what you think they won't do. There are many who were doing it before the internet.
Some do it free because they care for their country and their community.

Kitty has a point in one sense.

Journalists gather information.

Bloggers comment on information already gathered and rarely break stories.

Drudge with the Monica Lewinsky story is a notable exception.

Yeah like all those "journalists" who are digging up the dirt on Benghazi, or vetting barry before the last election. Please give me a break. There are precious few members of the "journalist" profession anymore. They are travelling on the tax payers dime following barry around the world on Air Force One hoping for an "exclusive" with his holiness. And the first instinct on hearing about Benghazi was to excoriate Mitt Romney for making a statement on the record, about the bone heads in the American Embassy in Cairo for bowing down to demonstrators as they storm the embassy. They're nearly all on their knees in front of barry and his minions. I prefer Kate, Breitbart, Drudge, Cat fur, etc. At least their comment moderation lets us get our views across. Not like the NP and such.

As a matter of probabilities, what's the chance of somebody sitting in their underwear in front of a computer getting the facts on Benghazi?

Well, considering anything out about Benghazi has come from leaks. I'd say about as good as those mentioned by Rick.

lance:It's not what they learn,it's what they report.

lance:It's not what they learn,it's what they report.

I thought the point of being a shill for government was to net themselves a bailout.

As long as Chris Matthews is allowed to get away with calling himself a "journalist"without outrage from those who profess to be "journalists" there is zero credibility to their claim to professionalism.The old leg tingler must be still having wet dreams about Obamas re-election,and this fool wants to call himself a journalist without even the pretense of impartiallity.Fine by me,but every "journalist" that silently accepts this pretender who is actually an advocate not a "journalist", willingly diminishes their profession in the eyes of the rest of us.Matthews is definitely not the only one guilty here,just the most obvious.

A good portion of a newspapers revenue comes from govt advertising in one form or another.These so called professional journalists know that,at least their editors do and especially the owners in this day of decreased other revenue.They should all rename themselves PRAVDA.

Set You Free, that is not true. Check out Blazing Cat Fur. He is always covering something. He broke the news about "mosqueterias".

Major Blog Scoop: Climategate.
It broke out in the Blogosphere in Nov. 2009 and wasn't even picked up, if at all until Jan/Feb 2010 by the Canadian Free Press and didn't get any coverage on TV(FOX) until the spring.

It isn't difficult to think of major stories broken by bloggers, Anthony Weiner was another blog story.

Mohammed Al Dura, the photoshopped faux war damage in the 2006 Hizb'allah War Lebanon with Green Helmut guy setting up fake civilian collateral damage scenes including the same trikes and teddies, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests.
Neda's death was captured on video by bystanders and broadcast over the Internet.
The video became a rallying point for the opposition and was described as "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".

If the Legacy media was so great they would be covering the atrocity that remains Staten Island New York, where people STILL have no regular water or food, whereas Long Island where the rich folk live are more than happy about their treatment by FEMA. Staten Island hasn't seen FEMA for a few days because they were "closed due to weather". Why is the media ignoring them? And by the way my wife doesn't allow me to sit around in my underwear. It scares the dogs...

Rick, how did you hear about Staten Island? probably from mainstream media coverage cited or linked to by bloggers. when people have to bring up Drudge and Lewinski, it shows how far back they have to go to find a major scoop. As for bloggers doing the grunt work of covering city hall, legislative and parliamentary committees, courts, crime, and the rest, on their own dime and for the sake of simply informing the community, dream on. And doing it without partisanship or being sponsored by a political party? Really dream on.

Kitty thinks journalists read parliamentary bills. Funny. Colby Cosh, one of the very few journalists who has earned my respect, and who as far as I can see meets the highest standards of the business, considers it ridiculous to expect a journalist to read bills and knows of none who do.

Maybe if he went to Ottawa, he'd meet some. I doubt there are any in Calgary who do.

He's in Edmonton. They have a legislature there.