A thread on kuro5hin discusses what is deemed The Utter Failure of Weblogs as Journalism. I entirely agree. Weblogging is not journalism, and should not pretend to be. It utilizes some of the presentation skills but none of the information-gathering and -verification ones. Adding personal commentary, or ‘spin’ to the items noted, or even just the act of selection, juxtaposition (and selective omission!) without explicit comment, makes weblogging much more akin to personalized editorializing rather than reportage. Please, please, no one should use FmH as their primary news source!