Bloggers often get tarred with the same feathers. They don't report anything new, the criticism goes, they just riff on what other people have done. And while that's true for many blogs, there clearly is plenty of original journalism being done by bloggers as well.
Here's a great example from
Blogging Baby, a blog in the Weblogs Inc. stable: "
The Amby debate continues: company denies defect allegations, mother responds." It's an extensive investigative reporting job (well, extensive by blog standards) of an alleged defect in a popular baby bed which may have caused an injury to an infant.
The report includes interviews with the mother who threatened to file a lawsuit against the company, photos, supporting documents, reaction from the company, etc. It's good stuff, and the blog discussion of the problem with the bed appears to have caused the company to create a fix for the "alleged" problem. (Amby, of course, denies that there is a problem with its product.)
It looks like journalism. It sounds like journalism. It is journalism. And it's a blog.
(Thank you to
Jay Allen for the pointer.)
...well, a very weak example of blogdom "investigative reporting" --...
