"If you want to find out what's going on, buy it. Don't try and get it for free".

Paul Waugh does a good round up of Private Eye editor Ian Hislop's take on blogging.

He was appearing in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee as Paul says.

was clearly unimpressed by bloggers. He made the point that the McBride emails scoop was published first by national newspapers rather than on Guido's own blog, partly because it was the papers that took the legal risk and partly because of the wider exposure and impact.

adding that

that "a lot of what is written on blogs would never get into newspapers" because of legal problems.