[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.