Who spit in his cornflakes?

Another anti-blogger op-ed piece. I'd take these things more seriously if the journo profs who crank them out could be bothered to read the blogs they attack. Latest case in point, this piece from the Baltimore Sun:

There is no denying that the bloggers are a powerful force in the information world.

But at least for now, they are no substitute for mainstream journalism, despite its flaws. A great many bloggers are either too self-absorbed to focus on keeping the public informed or too skewed by ideology to put factual accuracy front and center.

And how does he bolster this claim? With examples like this:

Case in point: "The Dawn Patrol," Manhattanite Dawn Eden's preening report on Dawn Eden, iconoclastic neoconservative "petite powerhouse," illustrated with Dawn Eden glamour photos.

If the good professor had bothered to scroll the whole way down the page, he would have seen that Dawn Eden writes about serious matters of life and death more often than she posts photos.

This kind of slip-shod "research" doesn't do much to help the professor's case that journalists have standards that bloggers don't live up to.