Why we need blogs

I read about the Chennai Bloggers' meet on Kribs' blog and I followed a link to the Indian Express news site. See what I found:

"Elsewhere, an IBM company employee had to resign after she posted some objectionable information regarding the Indian Institute of Project Management (IIPM), Delhi, in her blog."

Either Gaurav has changed his sex without telling us, or, the Indpress writer did not bother verifying facts. I can understand. I mean one has to search for IIPM and IBM on google and read through all that information... Pch! That kind of a task is second only to what prisoners do in granite quarries. So, I have decided to help Indian Express with the facts.
1) It is a he. Sir.
2) And, 'objectionable content'? How do you substantiate it? How could you write something that could possibly damage a guy's career?
3) 'Elsewhere': Either you are geography-challenged or you had to run to the John and you had all of 7 seconds to write the piece. What exactly did you have in mind when you wrote 'elsewhere'? You lost me there.
4)And, it was not IBM. It was Lenovo. Right guys?
5)Chennai started blogging at least four years back.

Now, dear reader, did I justify the title of this post, hmm? One may argue that why am I taking it so seriously. My point is that the fourth-estate can't afford to slip up. They can cause serious damage; by misrepresenting facts or not representing them at all (like in the case of Manju Nathan's murder and the IIPM fiasco; most channels and tabloids picked up the story after the bloggers started writing about the unpardonable crime that is Manju's murder). The fourth estate is supposed to be a watchdog. The watchdog has become fat and lazy. And rich too. So, it is time now for the blogger dawgs to rule the neighborhood. Doggy style.

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