The New Yorker editor says there are good bloggers and lousy bloggers.<br /><br />David Remnick: Are bloggers journalists? I think bloggers are bloggers, and there are good ones and there are lousy ones. <br />You know Andrew Sullivan is a really good blogger. He has four or five issues he's passionate about. He has a couple of good Webbie ideas, like readers sending their pictures out their windows. He's good at it. <br />There are political blogs that are good at it. There are specialty blogs that are good at it. <br />Are there a lot of bloggers who are doing what you and I understand to be the conventional reporting work of a Bob Woodward, or a Seymour Hersh, or a Jane Mayer or whatever? Not a lot. It's expensive, consuming, and it's not bloggy. You can't do it five, six times a day. <br />On the other hand, Joshua Micah Marshall does a good job by continually linking to things that he thinks that you should be as obsessed with as he is. And what you're reading with him; you're staying with a certain political sensibility. It's interesting. <br />So to me, the question is not, are they journalists or not journalists? It's just obviously a new form, a different form. And there are good ones and there are bad ones. <br /> <br />Recorded on Jan 7, 2008
