How have blogs / the internet changed news reporting

In today's age technology is the present and the future. New technologies are allowing communication and media to be shared as quickly as thing happen. With new technologies including cell phones, mobile blackberries, and many other devices used for communicating, finding a story to report has become very easy and very difficult simultaneously. On the one hand you have all of the information you will ever need to get a lead on a story with the click of a mouse. However, because of the rapidly fast communication time between people in today's age, it is very difficult to be the very first reporter to crack the story. In addition to the difficulty of getting there on time regarding reporters, blogs and the internet have brought an incredibly large amount of opinion into reporting. With celebrities blogging their thoughts on events as well as thousands and thousands more, it is easier to see where the popular opinion of the people lie with some investigation. That, in itself, has completely changed reporting.