Revision to my research proposal

I'm going to drop the two events and focus on how traditional media is responding to the influence of bloggers.

Some questions to research are:

1. How and to what extent have bloggers taken power (money and readership)away from traditional news organizations?

2. Have national or large-market media been more affected by bloggers than local or small-market media (i.e. have any small town papers seen sharp declines in circulation because of the existence of a popular blog in their area, or is local news more protected than, say, USA Today)?

3. What are news organizations doing to protect themselves against this new form of competition?