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Reuters is in the middle of a "blog storm" over allegations that one of it's photos of bomb damage in Beruit had been doctored. It has now withdrawn the image, and . Robin Hamman has more he also rightly reminds me that we've had our own photo scandals .

I'm not keen on the blogs vs mainstream media analysis; my experience has been that there's plenty of scope for effective "collaborative" journalism. But this latest incident is sure to revive the debate about that relationship. It's a theme of piece in the New Yorker. Part of the last paragraph in particular could almost have been written in reference to the latest row:

Journalism is not in a period of maximal self-confidence right now, and the Internet’s cheerleaders are practically laboratory specimens of maximal self-confidence. They have got the rhetorical upper hand; traditional journalists answering their challenges often sound either clueless or cowed and apologetic.

What do you think?