As Old Media continues to either beat down or fawn over New Media, let's stop and think for a moment:
Bloggers don't do original reporting.
That's it.
We're media critics, fact-checkers, b.s.-callers, gadflies, and useful in such roles. But we're not out there interviewing, digging through libraries, talking to The Woman in the Street. No matter how well-read we are, no matter how many websites we peruse each morning, no matter how quickly we can link to obscure factoids, no matter how crisp our prose, we just don't matter that much.
Yet.
When they offer a degree in Blogging, I'll rescind this statement. Heck, I'll print it on 80-lb white paper and eat it, pica by pica.
A little humility, please.
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