The Reader, a wonderful free alternative weekly published in Chicago, features a regular column of cogent local media criticism by Michael Miner.
This week's
column,has a thoughtful look at the Maya Keyes story, and the reaction of the city's daily newspapers to it.
Daily Koss is mentioned, and linked to in the online edition. Miner gives some genuine props to the blogging community.
Bloggers have broken much bigger stories than Maya Keyes, usually because the establishment press wasn't paying attention. This one's different. The blogs broke the story, spread the story, held it up to the light, and argued over it, and drew conclusions from it -- all while the daily papers didn't know how to write word one. The dailies had cause to feel just as virtuous as they wished, but also just a little archaic.,
Whatever your position on this matter, this column is worth checking out.