In the midst of an interesting roundup about how local newspaper sites might showcase local bloggers, Simon Owens has some great comments from Tony Pierce of the L.A. Times, including this one:
“For the most part, this whole citizen journalism concept is fine for about three or four people per town, but that’s about it,” he said. “And most of those people are not journalists for a reason. Either they’re crappy writers or they’re crazy, which makes for sometimes interesting blog posts, but is that something that a major newspaper would link to?”
In the abstract it sounds like a great (and cheap) idea to populate a local news site with a feed of local blogs – but unless someone is picking those “three or four” people who really know what they’re talking about, the aggregation itself isn’t much of a service.
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