This is a very interesting article about the MSN's continued oblivion toward blogs and the blogosphere. Worth reading.

For what it is worth, I do not see any difference between the national news and the blogs, aside from the fact that the news has significantly greater resources. I read/watch/listen to all of them the same critical way:

• What part of this story is fact?
• What facts are omitted or missing?
• Is there emphasis on the irrelevant?
• What part of this story is opinion?
• Do I agree with the opinion?
• Do the facts support or refute the opinion?
• Do the facts support or refute my opinion?
• Is this source consistantly biased toward a specific ideology?
• Would I feel honest reporting this story myself?

Seriously. I process the CBS Evening News exactly the same way as Say Anything. Both sources have biases and I understand those and factor them into how I process what they have to say.

It's all blogs to me.