As I said, they give us information that you likely wouldn’t find in your local news, and collectively, they give us more information than is accessible to the majority of us here.
If a blogger shows poor judgement as to what is interesting, people won’t go to his blog. If he shows good judgement, people will.
And it helps keep FR in business, because people would be more willing to support sites they visit than sites they don’t visit.
Well, we’re just going to have to disagree on that.