On this tediously S-L-O-W news day, we'll direct our readers' attention to this most-excellent post appearing on Standard-Examiner Editor Doug Gibson's Political Surf blog this afternoon. Doug starts off with a gratingly riveting and revealing video, which starkly displays, we believe, the enormous "fearful" tension which presently exists between traditional print media journalists and web based (blogger) upstarts, as they jockey for prime position in the 21st century infomation age:
• Political Surf on bloggers in D.C and the Top of UtahDoug then finishes off with what we'd consider to be a quite savvy and open minded overview.
We also thank Mr. Gibson for his very kind and gracious words.
We do our level best here at Weber County Forum to provide useful information, and to provoke and promote robust citizen discussion of local political issues. So needless to say, we're duly pleased to observe that at least one well respected spokesman for one local and traditional media kingpin recognises the social utility of that.
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