blogger - Power to the People - FP

Nice catch, Andrea! She was the first to point me in the direction of an article about blogging in the magazine Foreign Policy. Unfortunately, I have to rely on Andrea's transcript, since capacity problems stand between me and the original article.
"Increasingly, journalists and pundits take their cues about “what matters” in the world from weblogs." it says. "And for readers worldwide, blogs can act as the “man on the street,” supplying unfiltered eyewitness accounts about foreign countries. This facet is an especially valuable service, given the decline in the number of foreign correspondents since the 1990s. Blogs may even provide expert analysis and summaries of foreign-language texts, such as newspaper articles and government studies, that reporters and pundits would not otherwise access or understand."
The article mentions both Living in China and Wang Jianshuo's weblog.