Blogging vs. Journalism

I was slogging through the Christian Science Monitor today when I came across this article about bloggers. I read through it, thought it was a decent article, and then I got to this quote:

"We can't be too quick to equate the bona fides and journalistic chops of a blogger with that of any mainstream media organization," says Christopher Klein, a former executive vice president of CBS News. "The bloggers do not have any system of checks and balances. My issue is simply when we start elevating these journals of opinion to the level of newspapers of record, so to speak."

If CBS is the standard for journalism, I'd prefer not being compared to journalists.