Symbiotic Media
Uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds, the UT-Knoxville law professor who authors the daily Instapundit.com, speculates there is an emerging symbiotic relationship between Big Media and weblogs. Reynolds, writing at TechCentralStation.com today, speculates that in the future Big Media will concentrate more on hard news reporting and less on punditry. The grassroots weblog world, meanwhile, will provide much of the commentary and analysis.

"Professional punditry is in for some hard times: people have figured out that it's not that hard to do, and the supply of would-be pundits probably exceeds the demand," Reynolds says. "I know that I tend to turn to weblogs for insight and analysis far more often than I turn to the op-ed pages of the Times and the Post these days, and I think you'll see more people doing that over the next few years."

Commentary and analysis is what I try to provide here for you. I focus mainly on state politics and the Nashville media, plus other issues that interest me. I receive emails from dozens of people suggesting I check out various stories they've run across in papers as close as Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis - as far away as New York, Los Angeles and London. And it is growing. If you'd like to help expand this site, email me at bhhobbs -at- comcast.net and I tell you how you can help. I'm looking for a little bit of money (around $800) and several writers around the state willing to check their local newspapers' websites each day and provide a report/analysis if necessary on the paper's editorials and news stories.

UPDATE: See also this item on Glenn Reynolds' site, which includes a comment from a reader of his column who suggests weblogs form a "feedback loop" that allows those of a conservative/libertarian to analyze and counter Big Media punditry's liberal bias.

That's what we're attempting to create here.