User-News and the "MSM"

This piece from the San Francisco Chronicle covers a recent study showing lead stories in mainstream news outlets differed significantly from top topics in user-governed news sources (e.g., Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us).
What sources do you use for news? Should an editor at the Wisconsin State Journal be more trusted when it comes to what's worth running or should you pay attention to rankings based on what's tops among millions of readers/viewers? (The State Journal took some chiding when it set up a system to let readers vote online to pick one story for each day's front page.) What is a legitimate news source? Should news consumers have more of a voice in news decisions?

"Blogging" vs. "Reporting"

A Washington Post columnist wades into the debate over "what/who is a journalist" with a take on the blogger who tried to "out" Larry Craig. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090502519.html?hpid=news-col-blog
From high atop his Adams Morgan apartment building, Michael Rogers decides who is living a lie and who may be turning toward righteousness.
Then, with a few words sprayed onto the uneven ground between gossip and journalism, he turns a life upside down. Or he offers absolution, remaining silent if he believes the person in question has a good heart.
This isn't a new debate. Newspaper companies fear losing revenue to the Web and newspaper reporters fear losing readers to it. Bloggers can be a threat.
But beyond that is the more central question Fisher is trying to get at: what is "journalism" and does it deserve higher esteem than blogging?
What do you think? What is it? What kind of regard does it deserve? As I said in lecture, I think challenges to legitimacy are a greater threat to journalism than declining revenues. Are news organizations earning their legitimacy?