While your comments are surely true of some neighborhood Web sites, those produced by actual news reporters like the West Seattle Blog actually give us the best of both worlds... nearly instant communication, reader input and quality reporting.

What might be missed is the opportunity for more in depth reporting from a variety of reporters.

Wouldn’t it be better to take learn from the best of the neighborhood blogs as you move towards an on-line presence than to class and condemn them as as amateur productions?

Joanne Brayden
Seattle