Agora dois artigos extraídos do Editors Weblog, sobre Jornalismo cidadão e profissionais. Ambos tem posições contrárias a visão que todos podem ser repórteres. Bem fundamentadas, mostra que os blogs não possuem as seguintes qualidades:

• Objectivity: blogs are inherently biased
• Accuracy: bloggers don’t really report so what’s there to be accurate about?
• Corroboration: blogging and commenting are one-man shows…
• Avoid conflicts of interest: …one-man shows with a personal motive.
• Transparency: Bloggers are pretty good at this by linking to background material, but some still post and comment anonymously.
• Editorial oversight: against the whole concept of a blog