eh, i kinda disagree there. Mixed bag whether or not there is oversight at any given publication.
I also would say that 99% of the time, the facts are pretty damn accurate. I've read New York Times articles that mix up Thomas Gold and GTA (yes, really) and other basic things (calling electronic music "techno", etc etc). While blogs that are dedicated to Electronic Music should admittedly be more strict in their accuracy of most things, /r/Skrillex and /r/Trap are exceptionally hard on even the smallest errors people make in articles. Refer to Jurassic as a Dog Blood track or make any other small error that only a diehard fan would know (and in the case of Jurassic, there's even largely conflicting information on the internet when research is done) and all of a sudden "you're dumb, your site sucks, bloggers are garbage. quit your job and kill yourself" people lose their shitttttttttt. To be honest, it ain't all that serious, and I'm pretty sure even Skrillex agrees with that.
Also realize that most blogs (and by most, I mean massive majority) don't pay anyone, so these people are taking time out of their day to educate others/do something they love, and they're always bashed around here. I mean my friend and coworker/coblogger or whatever was once asked to write an article about the" Top 10 Skrillex tracks that never came out but you wished did"... it was an opinion piece. He wrote it, it was published, and then everyone was super mean because they didn't agree with HIS opinion. The title is literally "WE WISH would see the light of day" and as a result there's yet another thread calling us mediocre. lolz
I mean, could electronic music journalism be better? Yea, but I think most of the improvement could spur from bringing people on that actually know how to write, not just managers that see a blog as their way to put their artist on blast.
Also I've never once heard anyone in journalism make fun of bloggers. That's literally how most of them get to where they are today. As a matter of fact, any and every journalism education program in this country would probably ask participants to make a blog. And most journalists that have a name for themselves in the journalistic community also has their own blog. You know who makes fun of bloggers? Artists, managers, PR people, and fans. Why? no clue, considering we spend hours a day giving these artists, managers, and PR people free promo.
yea i just ranted a lot and i'm not sure how to bring this together but yall gotta take it easy on them bloggers