David Gergen had an interesting commentary on CBS Sunday Morning this morning on blogs and the blogosphere. He mentioned three by name: Instapundit, The Daily Kos, and Little Green Footballs.
Gergen’s conclusions were that blogging is citizen journalism and performs a valuable oversight function on professional journalism (which I agree with) but that there’s a danger of witchhunting and hounding good people unfairly to their destruction—he believes Eason Jordan has been treated unjustly (which I don’t agree with).
If Mr. Gergen believes that the danger of witchhunts and unfair hounding is limited to the blogosphere, apparently he doesn’t read the editorial pages of the New York Times. And that’s what blogs are, by the way—op-eds. Believe them, don’t believe them—it’s up to you.
But, as I pointed out yesterday in my post Bump, Set, Spike, blogs didn’t remove Eason Jordan from his job—either he or CNN management did that. Blogs just fielded his attack and kept the ball up in the air.
