The importance of blogging
Speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the BBC journalist Andrew Marr described bloggers as "socially inadequate, pimpled and very angry people."
He went on to say how blogging will never replace journalism.
This strikes me as a very naive, not to mention arrogant, statement to make. There is a wealth of blogs out there which specialise in any number of topics - music, celebrity, politics, interior design - and do so with well written, carefully-crafted blog posts.
I can't remember the last time I bought a music magazine, but I will check out Popjustice most weeks as their contributors possess none of the elitism and musical snobbery that seems to go hand in hand with most music journalism, and they regularly secure interviews with some of the biggest stars in the industry.
Similarly, when news broke that both Anna-Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson were hospitalised and subsequently died, the BBC was quoting celebrity news website TMZ because they were able to get their journalists - sorry, socially inadequate angry people - on the ground gathering facts quicker than anyone else.
Granted these aren't the most high-brow examples of journalism, but they are proof nevertheless that you don't have to be on the payroll of one of the nationals or a major broadcaster to be worth taking seriously.
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