Blogspaper

It seems to me that in many respects, the differences between blogs and newspapers have become so blurred, it’s quite difficult to say why, basically, this person is being paid to blog and this person is just blogging.

Sometimes the quality of the writing in a personal blog is far, far better, possibly even more succinct and organised than in the newspaper.

I was just reading a piece by Michelle Lalonde in the Gazette and it basically struck me that it was just a blog post. Then it struck me that the newspapers are deliberately trying to imitate blogs, to seem fashionable, “with it” . . . so cynical, but I can see their point.

After all, blogs have so totally undermined newspapers’ relevance except as purveyors of hard news . . .