Tough love ...

This is only tangentially related to blogging, but this list of "10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head" is interesting for anyone interested in the state of Web news.

One blogging-related item makes the parade, and it's more about the reporter-blogger dynamic than anything else:

Bloggers aren’t an uneducated lynch mob unconcerned by facts. They’re your readers and your neighbors and if you play your cards right, your sources and your community moderators. If you really play it right, bloggers are the leaders of your networked reporting projects. Get over the whole bloggers vs. journalists thing, which has been pretty much settled since long before you stopped calling it a “Web blog” in your stories.

There's a fair amount of "ouch" throughout this list, but it's worth the time to read it.

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