Blogs and Blogging. This looks at some of the reasons why blogs are catching on as journalism. They are journalism, of course, though they are not the only form of journalism. Big Media blots out local news, and blogs are rich with detail and set at a human scale.

"What they're all skirting around saying is that Big Media are no longer satisfying the regional needs of the politically active community. With newspapers losing ground to television, people who want to know what's happening must absorb it the way TV news presents it: As a national story, with pundits from the national stage analyzing the events."

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