Is mainstream media endorsing Blogs?

Utusan Malaysia today splashed a front page 'news quote' with the title "Isu Nik Aziz: Reaksi gesaan letak jawatan, pinda doa dan blog". Three quotes were highlighted and at the bottom end of the quotes is a lead to the page of the complete write-up of the news.

On the page mentioned (page 4) the whole story was not about the revelation or unraveling of the 3 issues above, but about the main subject: Nik Aziz and his "ill-doings". The sources of the story that was mentioned were from two blogs: unspinners.blogspot.com and kickdefella.wordpress.com.

The former blog owner today thanked Utusan for giving him/her/them/whatever credit that was due to the blog. Read here.

Now, what appalled me is that the whole story on the short write-up centers on some (or two rather) blog postings from an unnamed weblog (or source): unspinners.blogspot.com.

I tried to unravel the name/names of the owner/owners of this blog but couldn't find any. The only available names were their contributors with nicks such as: Cakap Pasal, Teruna Kelana, Abang Bulanja, Yeop Kanjieri, Tok Mat Sampan, Ipin Jual Sayur, Ranting Special, Marlborough Man, S Samad Sempit, Malaysia Betul, Friends of Teoh Beng Hock

Does this mean that the mainstream media (or Utusan rather) is now endorsing blogs even though it was an unnamed source? Well, at least if it wasn't a very credible source like MalaysiaToday, it can still be related to a named source or person: the infamous Raja Petra Kamaruddin.

Now, watch this space as I unravel more 'mystery' about how the mainstream media is now looking at blogs and in a way 'endorsing' their credibility.