If you want to start a blog, why don’t you go to Blogspot or Wordpress? Why go to a website that’s trying to make money out of your blogging?

Worse, they might censor your posts:

Mr. Inam Ul Rehman, who reviewed the film for Greater Kashmir, also posted the review on ‘Meri’ News, a news portal purportedly providing a platform for unfiltered citizen’s journalism. The censors at the portal managed to not only mangle the review but also preface it with an introduction which turned the meaning of Mr. Rehman’s review upside down! Mr. Rehman, one of ‘Meri’ News’s top Citizen Journalists of 2006, is naturally angry, but his anger remains unacknowledged by the portal and his review continues to be defaced.

Here.

And you thought only the State indulges in ham-handed censorship? And this case is worse than censorship: it amounts to putting words in a blogger’s mouth, or taking them away, and presenting a version that misrepresents the blogger’s arguments. So much for “citizen journalism”.