Bully for CNET

June 06, 2005

One of the more annoying qualities of the so-called blogosphere is the incessant, sophomoric carping about the so-called mainstream media, or "MSM." Some bloggers are great and some big media companies suck, but blogging doesn't replace good reporting, and good reporting requires, at least for the foreseeable future, mainstream media companies with the cash required to hire good reporters and underwrite their hunches and peregrinations. So it was a pleasure to see CNET, a pure online news organization that employs good reporters and editors as well as a number of good bloggers, break the news that Steve Jobs would today announce that Apple was shifting to Intel chips. That was a great scoop, and it provides cause for hope that the Internet can bring together the best qualities of the traditional MSM even as it spreads out into new forms of info gathering and dumping.

Posted by nick at June 6, 2005 06:51 PM

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Comments

The WSJ also reported it. I think it was less a scoop than a leak designed to take the shock out of the announcement at the WWDC.

Posted by: Steve at June 8, 2005 02:42 AM

The carping is annoying and futile. The two 'sides' are more complementary than competing. Not too far removed from radio destroying newspapers, films destroying books, TV destroying radio or films, cable destroying network media.

Posted by: Stuart Berman at June 10, 2005 09:24 PM