The problem with news outlets using blogs

I've used the Journal-Sentinel before to talk about the multimedia sports coverage it offers, but not the website also illustrates the downside of blogs. Because of the free, conversational nature of the writing, editing appears to be less critical. For example, the Wisconsin Badgers blog has a quote from football coach Bret Bielema: "It's just a difficult situation because of how it al went down to begin with," he added. "We tried to bring some new information. I thought there might be a change in the way things happened but there wasn't." I added the bold to make a point. The blog post lost some force for me with the misspelling. It also hurts the Web site's credibility because if they don't edit the blogs, the staffers may not edit the stories well.