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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.