B&C writes up Cory and Citizen Rain

By Steve Safran 

Broadcasting & Cable has a writeup on Cory Bergman’s labor of love, the Seattle blog and news aggregator Citizen Rain. B&C’s Michael Malone notes that Cory’s baby:

…showcases the work of 240-plus Seattle bloggers. The site is divided into a dozen categories, and features a “cover story” and four news slots.

The article also takes us through the still-nascent history of local station blog aggregators, starting with the WKRN effort. Malone did find some typical hand-wringing, too:

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Some station-business insiders, however, express concerns with featuring outside blog content, and wonder about the logic of posting links to rival stations.

Here’s the logic: The Web is Not TV. And linking to other sites sure seems to be working for Drudge, Google News, The Huffington Post…

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