In the article, “Blogs: All the noise that fits”, Michael Skube makes the point that blogging is not a legitimate form of journalism. It is based primarily on biased opinions and can never substitute the traditional “fact-finding” of reporters.

Skube mentions the quote “No man but a blockhead ever wrote but for money.” He implies that bloggers seemingly write for free, but more often than not, bloggers are political partisans, trying to advance their agenda, or promote their candidates. They express their opinions with a blatant disregard for facts or truth in the hope of fulfilling their political goals.

Bloggers do not want to be labeled as "journalists", or even be associated with the "mainstream media", yet, ironically, they are BECOMING the mainstream media as time passes by and more and more people follow and post blogs.

Bloggers simply dispense their opinions, from the comfort of their homes, and the safety of hiding behind their computers, whereas a true journalist painstakingly finds and verifies facts, occasionally putting himself or herself in danger. As an example, he mentions Claude Sitton, a reporter from the New York Times, who was threatend with death by a group of rednecks while he and another reporter were investigating segregation in the south.

The articles by Sullivan and Skube are in stark contrast to each other. While Sullivan claims that blogging will make the established press obsolete and advocates the embracing of blogging as a primary source of news, Skube argues that blogging will never become a legitimate form of journalism. Sullivan shows how blogs can eventually lead to profitability whereas Skube believes blogs are written to advance personal or political agendas.

The tone of the two articles are also very different. While Sullivan clearly approves of the blogging revolution, Skube dismisses it at as a bunch of biased opinions and nothing more.

I agree with Skube and believe that blogging cannot make the established press obsolete. I view blogging as a means to express opinions on articles based on unbiased facts, written by journalists who were paid to do so. No one does anything for free, and does a good job for it. Therefore I believe that blogging is good for commentary and opinions only, and that the established press is here to stay.