Maclean's Kady O'Malley posted some video of herself on Oct. 13 talking about the blogging of the recently concluded election festivities.

About three weeks into the campaign, her colleague Paul Wells asked the nation's political bloggers to do less opining and more reporting:

I have a hunch that political blogs would be more useful if fewer of them consisted exclusively of Here’s What I Think About This Morning’s Headlines and if more consisted, sometimes, of Here’s What I Saw When Politics Happened Near Me. Here’s a chance to test that theory.

An excellent suggestion from Mr. Wells, but on ridings I wrote about, I didn't see much evidence of citizen reportage, let alone relatively non-partisan citizen reportage.

The MSM is a long ways from being replaceable.