How Education Blogs "Outsource" Newspapers' Roles

Here's a chart that the Dallas Morning News' Kent Fischer showed recently to describe how the content from a traditional newspaper article matches up to the content of a blog post and the comments from readers that accompany many posts. 

Essentially, Fischer is arguing that blogs replace news articles by "outsourcing" the anecdotes, opinions, and analysis that make up most of a newspaper story.  The result is just messier to read, unverified (to the extent that newspaper stories are verified these days), and in some cases uninformed (not that experts are always all that informed).

Fischer's blog is called the Dallas ISD Blog.