Sorry, Bobert, you're shoveling empty rhetoric again(others have a more colorful name for it).

Blogs are not what you say, very far from it, in fact. Most blogs belong to people who don't have the money needed to publish books, magazines, pamphlets, or send out mailings. Most belong to people who can't buy infomercials or sponsor TALK RADIO.   Anybody can start a blog which means that there are blogs representing every point of view. That's both the best and the worst thing about blogs, because anybody can say what they want, from the Area 51 conspiracy theorists to the human rights activist.

It's free speech (at least for now) and you have to judge each on it's own merits. Contrary to what you might think, the WaPo and NYT are heavily, well, we won't say censored, but "edited", and there is a lot that is not reported.