Are blogs killing good writing?

[Commentary] It's been going on for too long, right before our eyes. Inevitably, someone was going to blow the whistle on the quality of writing on the Internet, and wouldn't you know it would be Felix Salmon, the famous financial blogger for Reuters.

It's bad, he says, much of it, but that's good. Well, maybe not actually good, but not bad. How so? Well, it's a bit hard to follow the thread of his argument (thus, some might say quite unfairly, demonstrating his thesis even as he lays it out). But his basic point is that on the Web, sheer quantity trumps quality. He praises the editor of the New York Observer for dispensing with editors: She "doesn't have either the time or the money to have a layer of experienced journalists reworking her bloggers' prose before it's published."