Bullard on blogs – storm in a teacup?

Yesterday, the Sunday Times published a column by David Bullard which has gotten South African bloggers all riled up (see search results on aggregators Afrigator and Amatomu. Ray Hartley, editor of the soon-to-launch The Times, makes the following observation on his blog: “The question I have is why do bloggers feel so threatened by an old media column? And why does an old media columnist feel so threatened by blogging?”