If you watch the video of my talk (the next post, which wasn't available when you made this comment), you'll see that I'm actually all *for* journalism. I don't think that bloggers are journalists at all. The point I made during my talk was that MSM had bad publicity, some of it brought about by themselves, and partly because bloggers are seen as more trustworthy because we are 'normal' and are part of a 'community'. So I hate the term 'Citizen journalist', think that journalists are on the whole pretty good, and am more than happy to be seen as a provider of User Generated Content. But then again - as I mention in the talk - I'm not a journalist. And I got a good response from the audience because I'm not one of these 'All journalists are dinosaurs, blogging is the way of the future' type people.