Citizen Journalists Lead on CIETC Probe

There is a lot of hand wringing and navel gazing both in the blogsphere and in the mainstream media (for the benefit of the unblog-schooled, that's hereinafter MSM) to the extent of, "bloggers are really good at meta-commentary but they will never replace real journalists." I call bullshit on that.

There are tons of national counterexamples but we don't have to go very far afield to find blogger journalists who are doing a fine job out-reporting the MSM. Blogger, Who's Makin' Bacon? has been on CIETC scandal since the story broke. His reporting has more details and nuance than most of the stuff out of the Des Moines Register. More juicy bits too. Ditto Drew Miller.