One doesn't need to attempt to delegitimatize professional journalists in order to stick up for independent or new media, or bloggers. I don't think the distinctions you're making in the questions you asked there are even useful (plenty of professionals focus on a niche, plenty of bloggers are affiliated with a "big name" in media today, etc.). I guess the answer to your questions is "no, I'm not saying those things."

I think maybe Taleb's critique is perhaps meant to be aimed at the sort of elite tier of celebrity journalists, who are pretty easy to dislike. I tend to think the critique is way too heavy-handed, though. There's a great deal of crap being produced today but, if we're candid about it, in terms of pure volume there's more high-quality reporting today than there has ever been. People are fatigued by the effort of filtering out the garbage but it's intellectually lazy to dismiss the whole thing.