Webloggers Not Qualified to Comment on Weblogs? @ Radio Free Blogistan

September 9, 2002

Christian Crumlish

plasticbag.org wonders why journalists writing articles about weblogging consider webloggers to be unable to comment on our own revolution:

Despite their protestations to the contrary, most mainstream publishers who say that weblogs represent a new democratising of the media still lapse into talking to figures with substantial 'authority' in the 'real world' rather than webloggers themselves.

Posted by xian at September 9, 2002 8:20 AM

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