annenberg survey

The Annenberg Public Policy Center has released more results of that media survey I took awhile back. One interesting tidbit:

45% of journalists said “bloggers have a positive impact on the quality of news that the public receives” (38% said a negative effect). Roughly half, 51%, said ” the emergence of blogs has made journalists more accountable,” with 44% saying they haven’t made much difference. (3% said they’ve made us less accountable).

Also, 20% of journalists report reading a blog almost every day, compared to 10% of the general public.

This doesn’t seem to me to show a profession that is being particularly defensive or “scared,” as some bloggers have claimed.