Keeping with the theme of me becoming a curmudgeon at the age of 25, I decided today that I will discontinue my use of news blogs as a means for relevant, accurate, and mostly unbiased information. This stems from the fact (yes, fact) that most, if not all, new blogs tend to spew out irrelevant, highly inaccurate posts with heavy left- or right-winged bias for the sake of page views and getting paid per post/1000s of page views (hello, advertisers).

I never read more than a few clippings from the Huffington Post, Mediaite, Gawker, and other “sources” with shoddy writing and a thirst for continuous page views of kittens. I’ve always been a fan of New York’s Daily Intel (compared to the hastily written and never researched Gothamist), as well as The New York Observer, but after a string of articles poking fun at hard-working New Yorkers, longstanding neighborhood traditions, and a strong emphasis on pop culture icons, all under the guise of investigative journalism, I’ve opted to go with wire sources (AP, Reuters) and the New York Times. Sure, the Times gets on its high-horse every so often, but it’s rare if non-existent to accuse the publication of lacking thorough research and precise, well-written articles. Hell, even the Opinion pages make more sense and contain well thought out arguments, compared to that of, say, The Drudge Report or other like sites that feed on negativity.

Does this make me better than you, dear reader? Nope. I’m interested in a journalist’s perspective rather than that of a blogger. And I still get my tech, music, and movie news from a series of blogs that I follow specifically for review and/or opinion purposes. Can a blogger have a fair say/voice in our current world of media? Sometimes, sure. Why not. But it’s hard to find a gold ring on a mountain of turds.