Mainstream blogs trustworthy in Asia?

I know i i blogged about this b4 in The blogosphere to be the next tabloid and a sub topic under ethical blogging. But reading Mitch Joel’s post on Bloggers have no ethics a few days back, it provides a great flipside from the traditional media’s perspective on what they think on the blogpsphere. They discredit bloggers yet they have to own a blog because of the growing emergence and reliance of their readers of obtaining news online… Check out the number of blogs that each reporter in channelNews Asia now has… I think Mitch poses a good question at the end,

Are Blogs written and produced by the mainstream media the only ones the general public should trust?

I was wondering from an Asian perspective, where diary blogs are more prominent, do we share the same problems of trust for objective and reliable news from citizen journalism? Or are we more willing to trust our community? Do share!