media - Serious Kristof-bashing among US bloggers, and the alternatives

New York Times columnist and China-expert Nick Kristof has come under servere attack of US based webloggers. "Still Pistof, still fact free", is the latest of a serie of attacks that challenge this NY times star reporter. Webloggers have been following their more traditional colleagues more closely, during the ongoing presidential elections in the US, but also in the way the big media cover the rest of the world.
In this case Kristof got scolded for taking on feminists organizations for not taking care of their sisters in the third world, but the attacks do relate to a broader discontent on how media cover the world. Under bloggers it has been pretty common to call the New York Times the New Prawda.
Also in China local media are becoming better in reporting, like this story by Southern Weekend, summerized for weblog-portal "Living in China". This story summerizes a tragic mining accident at 5 February that has cost 28 lives. What is typical is that often reporters do go out to report on these far-away place, in stead of being able to report on their own provinces.