Interesting year-in-review article from the OJR here.

For way too long, it has been the mainstream media (MSM) that’s played God with the American public, telling everyone what’s news and what’s not, what to play up and what to downplay. But 2004 was the year the power started shifting, that the Little People, if you will, started to tell the gods of media what the public really wanted.

Glaser solicits feedback on a range of online journalism issues from a variety of informed sources, and the overall effect is, well, mixed. I’m already on record in my E&P piece suggesting that 2004 was more about the failure of the blog than the success (and hey, my feelings are hurt – why didn’t he ask me what I think?).

Glaser sees mostly blue skies, sounds like, but the folks taking a more critical look at the state of online J are a lot more interesting, I think.