http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:30:59 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/09/085111.php#comment-57077 It is poor reporting, possibly because blogs are seen by some reporters to be competitors that could put newspapers out of business (picture a local version of Blogcritics, and it could very well happen). The St. Petersburg Times did some poor reporting not too long ago. A Times reporter scanned my real estate when searching for real estate information, then they did a huge real estate feature-story special section. I saw information from my blog used, but my blog wasn't cited as the source. I think newspapers, for the most part, just want people to believe blogs are a fad, even when they're clearly not. Because blogs do compete with newspapers for readership, news organizations don't always want to give them credit as sources, because it increases blogs' credibility to their readers. They may find information for a story on a blog, then go out of their way to find another source to say the same thing, in order to avoid using the blog as a source. 57077@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:30:59 EDT