Unless you're a member of Salon, that is, but just watch the thing and read danah boyd's piece, The new blogocracy:
As a practice, journalism espouses an air of objectivity, purporting to cover all sides of a debate, equally and with emotional distance. While few believe that journalists are unbiased, it is considered a respectable aim of the profession and readers expect them to be as objective as possible. Bloggers, on the other hand, have no such cultural code and their readers rarely hold them accountable for objectivity.
Trying to come up with a non-pretentious way of explaining that I liked the piece because it's written from the perspective of a weblog consumer (reader) rather than a producer (blogger [which, yes, she is as well]), but failing completely. Possibly because that's not entirely accurate a description, but also because nothing screams pretension like parentheticals and bracketheticals.
Bracketheticals?
Right, one more time: This entry subject to major revision or sudden disappearance when my brain starts functioning again.
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