Ego disintermediation

In today’s NYTimes, Mickey Kaus worries that blogging journalists will save their best stuff for their blogs and bypass editors. Good point. Most writers are in it as much for mojo than money. Ego disintermediation is a big driver for blogging journalists. The article is written by journalist David Gallagher, who says (on his own blog) that he blogs “because self-publishing is the best thing about the Web.” (Via Hylton Jolliffe.)

Reading the same article, Amy Langfield asks: “should journalists blog?” And she answers, “As a former copy editor and desk editor, I want to say