Bloggers: Media Watchdog

"Bloggers are holding journalist accountable" claims Poynter Online's Kelly McBride in her article "Journalism in the Age of Blogs".

I could not agree more with the above quote, bloggers are teaching the media that they are no longer the only dogs in the news yard anymore. The public can now find thousands of different angles on a story with one click of the left mouse button. No longer is the official media the only oasis of information in the desert, bloggers have opened fast food news cafe's along that desert route.

For the first time in decades there is a community of people that are not only revealing the problems with the media, but are doing so with authority and are not willing to be swept under the carpet like some electronic nuisance.

My questions are whether this new sense of responsibility is placing more pressure on bloggers to write about current events and politics, rather than about more everyday activities? And if bloggers are being considered media watch dogs, who then is watching the bloggers?