Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Why is the MSM not Turning Bloggers into Columnists?

Some Canadian columnists have turned to blogging. However, I am still waiting for one of Canada’s major papers to make a blogger into a columnist. Quite frankly I am puzzled by what is taking them so long. There are plenty talented bloggers and many of them are the equal or better of many columnists.

Off I the top of my head, here are a few candidates amongst Liberal bloggers. Of course there are others.

Calgary Grit: http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/

Red Tory: http://redtory.blogspot.com/

Whig: http://whigca.blogspot.com/

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You answered your own question. You pick thre partisan liberals hacks. Why would any newspaper pay for their drivel?

Darren McEwen said...

Because they pay Peter Worthington and other Con hacks!

Koby said...

"You answered your own question. You pick thre partisan liberals hacks. Why would any newspaper pay for their drivel?"

Dumb shit. I mentioned three Liberal bloggers 1) because this is being posted at Lib Blogs and 2) I said I would list them. "Off I the top of my head, here are a few candidates amongst LIBERAL BLOGGERS. Of course there are others." You should also note that I logically implied that there are worthy candidates outside of Lib blogs. To wit: "amongst Liberal Bloggers.” As for drivel, please take one of, oh, Whig’s posts, say, and tell me why it is drivel.