The Register: Back in the Bloghouse : “If I was in a position of power, I’d be delighted to see news reporters supplanted by blogs, because blogs - for all their empowerment rhetoric - are far easier to divert and confuse than a few persistent and skillful reporters. Watergate took fifteen months to break, but a blog meme has a TTL (time to live) measured in hours, as it roars round the world, before the bloggers find a new novelty. ” I completely disagree with this statement. Most of the commentary I find on the blogs I read is far more critical and insightful than this statement implies. Most of the blog authors I read are brilliant people, and are quite skeptical.