The stigma that blogs are just people's opinions and ranting is incorrect. Many blogs are purely editorial. Mind is probably quite editorial. But the blogs that I frequent for news and information are, in my opinion, news site.
Today, for example, I quickly found two stories I had not yet heard. Both at the LGF site (this site was at the forefront of exposing the Dan Rather "Fake but Accurate" memo story):
This one is a link to an editorial in an Australian newspaper and it mentions, "Five days before the slaughter in Bali, nine Islamists were arrested in Paris for reportedly plotting to attack the Metro."
And this one about the Palestinian situation. This one emphasized one of the reasons for the Israeli pull-out of the Gaza strip. Let them govern themselves (if they can). "More than three dozen Palestinian police officers broke into the parliament building in Gaza City on Monday, firing in the air to protest a lack of bullets and equipment in what they said was a humiliating confrontation with Hamas."
Sure there are comments and opinions and agendas on blogs. But once backed up by public accounts the and the free press, many of which do not make it to the "most popular" yahoo articles, blogs find their way into being sources of news and information that would otherwise be difficult to find.
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