Are bloggers the enemy?

There are about 112 million blogs floating around the internet, according to blog tracker Technorati. And while a significant number of those blogs are run by established media organizations, there are plenty of journalists who are alarmed by anyone other than a credentialed journalist reporting the news.

On a recent episode, The Colbert Report, Andrew Keen author of the book The Cult of the Amateur, said: “The internet trivializes culture to such an extent that everyone is broadcasting, everyone is writing blogs, everyone is putting music on the web.”

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