That debate again

I see that Iain Dale has written a piece in todays comment is free in the Guardian.

The piece entitled "the blogging revolution" argues that the internet has increased press freedom by giving a new medium to journalistic opinion.

According to Iain

The internet can truly be said to have given the people a voice. Gone are the days when the only way a citizen could take part in a free and open dialogue was to write to the letter pages of his or her local newspaper.

However as far as the traditional medium is concerned,Iain refers to them as Luddites,

"gone are the days when celebrated newspaper columnists would be able to pontificate on the great issues of the days and sit back and think "job well done". These days there are millions of columnists all around the world who can do the same thing - they're called bloggers. Newspaper columnists hate them because they've broken into their monopoly and democratised it. "

I have no doubt that this piece will bring up the are bloggersjournalists debate ?

Congratulations though to Iain for putting it on the line and let's see the response