Bloggers and Journalists - what's up with them?

No print media can ever live up to: the ability to upgrade, add, change and in some cases, remove instantly. This is just one point.
In his article 'Are Bloggers Journalists? Are Blogs New Journalism?’ Chris Pirillo brings out another point: bloggers, well, they are not journalists.

Bloggers
Pirillo holds that bloggers are all about passion when they write about what they feel, and think. That bloggers use this blogosphere that this very blogsphere is like this huge editorial board wherein ideas can be publicly challenged, corrected and validated. This thought definitely shared a rapport with Doctorow’s article and how blogs are just that much more fresh and up to beat than say old print news.

Journalists
But journalists, on the other hand, are all about facts and getting their big fat paychecks.

Now, let's just get critical of his article. Pirillo asks if bloggers should be held to the same standards as the media. The thing is though, he hardly touches base on this throughout his piece. He could have delved into the different standards both online-wise and old school print-wise. With 'standards' comes the issues of credibility, authority, democracy and or prestige but Pirillo just benched all those matters from the game too. He did stress though, that blogs take a lot of heat, some of this heat is largely in part by a certain mister.