Saying bloggers are journalists is like saying self-thought VB "scripters" are programmers...

Specially given that most blogs are set up to elucidate the world on one individual's thinking and opinions, this is by no means journalism.

Journalists carry a moral responsability to be impartial (except on op-ed pieces), check their sources, check their sources' statements, and to print the truth... It's kind of a stretch to say that the guy setting up a blog explicitly intended to badmouth his employer will follow the same standards.

Bloggers are nothing more than normal, non-professional (in the journalistic sense) people speaking their mind. If they have an episode of brain diarrhea and say somethign they should not, they should get in trouble just like everyone else.