“No wonder sharp observers can see cable television frequently cannibalizing blogs for up-to-date campaign analysis and other political reporting..”
You touch on a small, but significant point here…
the blogosphere is becoming, and has in past elections, THE SOURCE of breaking news for the MSM and other media. Sure, they then grab onto the story as if it was their own…but WHERE does it break? Someone’s blog, linked to other’s blogs, etc., etc. until it overwhelms the media and they have NO OTHER CHOICE but to cover it.
Oh, they can, and have tried to ignore stories or opinions/claims that they have felt were not “worthy” or “beneath them”, but they do so at their own peril, and simply reinforce the belief that they are simply irrelevent…much like newspapers are becoming.
And much like the intrenched recording industry is collapsing under the internet’s ability to distribute music, the “news industry” is being tranformed by the internet and blogs.
And I personlly could not be happier.
