The man in charge says he’s open to the idea.

Blogs are bad, you see:

“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” he [Obama] said.

In the meantime, the Washington Post, one of those “respected?” members of the legacy media, had to backtrack on a made up quote today.

The reason? One of those pesky blogs called them on it.

So yeah, by all means, throw some money at the problem. It seems to be working for the auto industry.