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Zachary M. Seward for Nieman Journalism Lab, explaining the ridiculousness of classifying content according to the platform on which it is produced (in response to Google News’s addition of the modifier ‘blog’ for some news sources).
Content quality is determined by the writer’s work. Not by whether the work is spit from Movable Type or a big news org’s custom CMS. Even the days when the writer’s work was validated by the employer’s publishing brand are waning. Content is unstoppably standing on its own.
Google News probably sees this ‘blog’ label as an objective way (relying on the mechanics of publishing) to support a subjective demotion (blogs are lesser quality, right?) of a certain bucket of content. But, that’s rather insupportable.