Yes, but who's going to pay the intrepid journalists to go out to Iraq? That's the part of the model that I can't quite figure out yet. If the AP can't sell their content, who's reporting in Angola? Who's covering the un-sexy stuff in Nevada elections, etc.
The other is the issue of aggregation. It might just be that bloggers are the new journalists and Techmeme/GoogleNews are the new New York Times, so maybe it's not a huge problem, but overall, I think most people aren't interested in building up and filtering RSS feeds to find the news they care about.
Re:Henry Blodget: Why Newspapers Are Screwed
by byrneseyeview on Monday August 13, 2007 @09:44AM
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http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers....
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php
Wherever there's something interesting happening, there's at least one person with a Blogger account and a little free time.
Ok, but integrating all of that into something quickly and easily digestible, checking it for facts, and checking to see if it's even covering the whole story is still not something part of that ecosystem. There's a startup for someone, but I'm not sure it's something that's going to be tech driven...
Re:Henry Blodget: Why Newspapers Are Screwed
by byrneseyeview on Monday August 13, 2007 @12:19PM
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That, or there's Instapundit and Daily Kos.
Most popular bloggers lean towards collect stories -- they don't write them.
Blogs are a distributed newsroom: reporters and editors don't even have to know each other to outwrite and outthink the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Those are all politics, all the time. Something like cnn.com has a much better mix of stories, even if they're certainly not stellar journalists. People are motivated to get involved in politics stories for free (everyone has an opinion, and to judge by lots of people, don't even need much in the way of facts to have one), but much less so to go out and do real reporting.
In fact, some well known bloggers are reporters who just decided they didn't need the paper anymore, like Matt Marshall of VentureBeat.