The online journalism review asks whether Bloggers are journalistic parasites and could they survive without reporting from the online papers and broadcasters?
Robert Niles says that he has heard the following so many times from journalists
"You bust your rear to get stories in the paper, then watch bloggers grab traffic talking about your work. All the while your bosses are laying off other reporters, citing circulation declines, as analysts talk about newspapers losing audience to the Web."
He disagrees with the analysis saying that
it's a poorly informed insult of many hard-working Web publishers who are doing fresh, informative and original work. And by dismissing blogs as "parasitic," newspaper journalists make themselves blind to the opportunities that blogging, as well as independent Web publishing in general, offer to both the newspaper industry and newspaper journalists.
He does some of his own research,this comment from Rich Gordon
There are many, many blogs that address topics that aren't covered by mainstream media at all. Those who write these blogs do original reporting, at least based on what they see around them. So even to the degree this criticism has a basis in fact, it refers only to a fraction of all blogs."
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