Bloggers Impacting News Coverage

A great editorial appeared in this week's Capitol Weekly about how the blogosphere is taking on traditional news media and how political coverage is changing as more and more blogs become available to voters. Take a short read at Bloggers provide focus, attention, nuance in political coverage.

My favorite part:

"The rise of local blogospheres is good news for anyone who wants more information, increased choice and a wide variety of opinions from all sides of the political spectrum, and who don't want political reporting that falls back on familiar tropes and content-free process politics. As this new media environment expands, voters will have a wealth of knowledge with which to make decisions on their representatives in government, and the end result can only be positive for democracy."