The relationship between print and online media is still all but relaxed. It can even get really ugly, if the blogging community feels exploited by the print media.
In Germany we have a hot discussion about this issue, fueled by the launch of a new low-cost regional tabloid paper in the city of Frankfurt.
News launched last week and claims to serve the information needs of "the generation iPod." In order to do so, it publishes daily excerpts from weblogs on up-to-date topics on a page called "Interactive."
Unfortunately, the paper started doing so without asking the owners of the weblogs in advance -- and although an apology was issued the next day and published, this caused a kind of hate campaign in the blogging community. Some
259 people commented on the topic at
blogbar.de before the owners closed the discussion.
Various media and magazines have stepped in. The magazine
Telepolis used the discussion to reflect on the perceived information needs of young people today. It's worth reading (in German).
