Blogs as news filter

I found this interesting article via gawker who described it:

And yes, I saw Simon Dumenco’s column about Tina Brown’s show, Gawker, Romenesko, etc., and I thought it was pretty funny. He basically says that people don’t actually have to watch or read anything as long as they read the summaries and can fake being “in the know.” Blogs and TiVos are birthing a small army of little faker Jayson Blairs. I’d suggest that you read it, but that seems needlessly superfluous now that I’ve summarized it.

It made me think about how I often get the news now filtered through blogs, usually from a liberal or a libertarian perspective. I never even have to read Glenn directly, since his most interesting entries are usually summarized elsewhere.

Aside from occasional visits to the New York Times website and occasional listens to NPR, I get most of the rest of my news from the The Onion or the Daily Show. All of this keeps me somewhat “in the know.”