blogs often give the readers exactly what they want, don't charge, often don't sell advertising, and are sometimes pretty darned good and accurate...so why are you down on blogs.
Blogs are like getting your gas and electric for free instead of having to pay for it and deal with a large corporation who won't listen to the customers
And I know you are going to say something about "accountability"...but then who really knows...we have seen that a lot of so-called reputable sources also have little accountability and can be very wrong and biased....all the while claiming to be unbiased.