Over the last few days the New York Times has presented several interesting articles covering bloggers and the role they play with in the traditional media matrix. In her piece Katharine Q. Seelye addresses the blowback created by a pseudo blogger covering Senator Obama’s recent speech in San Francisco. Monday’s edition presented us with an article written by Tim Arango that draws light on the role “new media” plays in professional sports.

Both articles were good (neither great) at presenting what some of the current obstacles are facing digital media. Those that choose the digital space as their platform of preference are at a tumultuous crossroads with two and a half centuries of the print industry. And hold on folks, it’s getting bumpy.

I found that the core argument in both articles to be the definition of what a blogger is and the role they should play in dealing with the current media format.

Seelye struggles with having to identify Ms. Mayhill Fowler as either a contributor for the Huffington Post or just John Q. Citizen who writes in her spare time. Fowler argues that she was invited to an event as an active supporter of Mr. Obama and not as a correspondent for HuffPo and that she was not properly vetted as such. The lack of clarity concerning Ms. Fowler’s role led to her “press” coverage of the event. This in turn led to the whole of Pennsylvania up in arms over being “bitter”. This event may have help contribute to Mrs. Clinton’s victory in that state last night.

Mr. Arango’s article covers the relationship Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has with the mainstream media in this new era of digital reports. Cuban a blogger himself is wrestling with how to handle bloggers in the locker room and on game days.

Over the next few weeks I will be polling my colleagues here at Morpheus. Since a majority of us here are bloggers, I would like to know whether or not independent bloggers should be viewed as official media. I would like to get an idea of what my contemporaries think before I put forth my final analysis on this matter.

So I pose them same question to you, the reader of blogs. Are bloggers media? Or do some media outlets simply blog?