Faceless internet blogs are forever blabbering on

In today's Sunday Herald regular columnist Joanna Blythman repeats a misconception that I've come across before: that 'bloggers' are people who write comments in the online forums of newspapers. This is a bit like thinking that 'journalists' are people who write letters to the editor. A person labouring under such a misconception might wonder why anyone should bother reading these strange 'printed newsheets' full of the uninformed scribblings of 'journalists'.

She concludes:

Glowing exceptions...