One last comment on blogging at the DNC

Earlier posts here and here and here concerning blogging at the Democratic National Convention showed that journalists, by in large, treated it as a dilution of journalistic talent and insight while bloggers treated it as just the opposite.

Here's a final comment by a journalist, a radio talk-show host, and a man who has a blog (so not, presumably, an unbiased source but, still, also a journalist): blogging is the democratization of journalism and by opening the field favors talent over connections and credentials. The full quote:

Bloggers acquitted themselves well because they are a very smart group. In fact, I think it is hard to overstate how much better informed Matt Yglesias, Matt Welch, Mickey Kaus, and Tim Blair — all of whom I interviewed on air — are than every elected official I interviewed. These are serious thinkers though with good humor mixed in, and the blogosphere is simply the democratization of punditry, with the result that talent wins.

The arrival of the bloggers is a big deal. They'll never not be here in the future, and now the question is who gets to blog the debates?

Link via Glenn Reynolds.