Bloggers: An army of irregulars

BBC News website’s World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds wrote about the emergence of blogs and recognized blogs as useful resources.

I regard the blogosphere as a source of criticism that must be listened to and as a source of information that can be used.

The mainstream media (MSM in the jargon) has to sit up and take notice and develop some policies to meet this challenge.

Director of the BBC’s Global News Division Richard Sambrook, who is responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media accepts that BBC need to do more.

"The BBC should proactively engage with bloggers. This is a new issue for us. Some departments look at blogs, though haphazardly. But it pays dividends. The BBC is a huge impersonal organisation. It needs to come out from under its rock." [...]

"The BBC should proactively engage with bloggers. This is a new issue for us. Some departments look at blogs, though haphazardly. But it pays dividends. The BBC is a huge impersonal organisation. It needs to come out from under its rock."

Currently in Malaysia, The Star hosts a blog and named it Citizen’s Blog.