That has been an issue with me ever since I began posting on FRee Republic in 2004 - that blogging has been discouraged by a vocal group of FReepers.
It should be encouraged and supported.
I will say that they do have a point with the ‘pimping’ aspect, but by and large I totally agree with you.
When posting CNS articles is considered pimping, that’s overboard.
People forget it was a ‘citizen journo/blogger type that took down Dan Rather, not the ‘established’ right wing media. Or that Drudge was not establishment when he nailed Clinton to a wall.
People have to start somewhere.