Een paar weken geleden plaatste de CEO van General Motors zijn eerste bericht op de FastLane Blog. Gaat de CEO van Sony (Howard Stringer) een weblog starten? Nee, nog niet, maar misschien als hij gepensioneerd is. In een interview met CNET News, die recent ook een interview hadden met Bill Gates, zei hij het volgende over weblogs:

You're a former journalist. What do you think about blogs and their impact on news media? Do you read blogs?
I do, and there's an astonishing amount of information coming at you--and from a lot of different directions. That, in a way, is an extraordinary way to check and balance. And that is a good thing. The difficulty is sorting it out. That is why God invented editors. I find it very stimulating. I think sometimes that if I retire, I'll become a blogger and finally say all the things I've always wanted to say.
Feel free!
I think there are a thousand secrets out there, and there's no particular reason why secrets shouldn't be found out by someone who isn't a full-time, paid journalist. A secret is a secret. I'm much more concerned by the impact of all the news channels than I am about blogs.
The reader or writer brings to a blog a level of skepticism as well as curiosity and even balance. I don't think you say, "This must be true." You do tend to look at news media with the attitude that this must be true. In some ways--which are more worrisome when there is so much news coming out of those news channels--that is confusing to the viewer and doesn't involve actual reporting. There is much less actual reporting on news channels than there used to be, let's say, on the network evening news.

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