The blog-o-sphere, it turns out, isn’t doing enough complaining! Even about things that matter! Sure, Jim Romenesko might be clicking “Post” every other hour on a Dow Jones-News Corp. item, but elsewhere … crickets.

Blogs Attytood:

Some are surprised. After all, the influence and alleged right-wing bias of FNC, still the most watched cable news channel despite a recent drop in viewing, is an evergreen topic, especially when it comes to the media’s role of encouraging the war in Iraq. Now FNC’s boss wants to buy the most widely read newspaper, and certainly one of the four biggest in terms of its influence. You’d expect fear and loathing.

In an earlier post, I touched on one of the reasons that political bloggers don’t care, and that’s the odd hybrid of top-notch reporting on the news pages coupled with an editorial page that sounds like it was written over in Exxon-Mobil’s PR shop. Liberal bloggers wonder if Murdoch would really change things much. Conservative bloggers…well, they simply tend to think there’s nothing wrong with Murdoch.

However, I think there’s also something deeper here, and it cuts to a core problem afflicting the mainstream media. More than any other major news outlet, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal has dedicated itself to building a wall between itself and the online community.

Hmmm, what was the tip off? That the Journal, like, charges for its web content, while the Times tries its hand at live-blogging?

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