Henry Farrell writes about the tension between journalists and bloggers. I guess that some journalists feel that bloggers are stealing their advertising revenue.

The struggle between the mainstream press and bloggers is an on going theme in the blogosphere, but I don’t buy it. Where ever I look, I just see a giant love fest going on between journalists and bloggers. Look at the new Times design. They have a section just for items most blogged about.

Whenever we write any commentary on a columnist, they put it on the bottom of the page. Even when we criticize them. This sends in a lot of traffic. And when they link to me, it makes my head all big and puffy, because every blogger secretly hopes to get a real job some day, and then I keep up the links to these columnists.

Bloggers are regularly quoted in the paper as experts. The Times writes an article on blogs every other week.

Bloggers regularly link to the mainstream papers. Probably link to them more often than to other bloggers.

All this back and forth linking between blogs and the media expands readership and drives buzz.

All I see is love.