The Globe and Mail’s Christie Blatchford - who is reporting from the Olympics in Beijing — has written an interesting perspective on the impact on journalists of blogging and other new media delivery. 
The full column can be found here.  Here’s an excerpt:
It is not true that anyone can write. It is not true that anyone [...]

Michael Phelps is certainly dominating the headlines, at least for these two weeks.
I heard an interesting conversation during some of the Olympic commentary the other night.  One of the broadcasters was despairing that swimming only comes into the spotlight and the public consciousness every four years.  “Why can’t we get Americans to be interested in [...]