Garrett Graff — American Editor

Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico Magazine. Prior to that he was editor-in-chief for Washingtonian magazine in Washington, D.C. and an instructor at Georgetown University in the Masters in Professional Studies Journalism and Public Relations program. He is the author of The First Campaign, and his second book,The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror was released in March 2011... (wikipedia)

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.