Pew research recently released a report on online content creation by Internet users that CNN says proves there are very few bloggers around. This bothers some bloggers. Robert Scoble points to Marketing Wonk's take on it:

Gotta love CNN's spin: "Very few bloggers on Net." The report in question, from Pew Research, concludes that two percent of U.S. Internet users kept online journals last year, but it goes on to say that more recent research from the last couple of months suggests that figure may have risen to seven percent. Based on Pew's own estimates of how many Americans are now online (126 million adults, as of last December), that works out to 2.5 million to 8.8 million bloggers in this country.

To put that in perspective, while some 86 million U.S. homes have CNN on their cable dials, only some 3.6 million people were tuning in daily to see its live coverage of the Iraq invasion, and its top-viewed regular show, Larry King, attracts only one million viewers on average. Very few indeed.

Bad logic.

You can't compare weblogs (at best, a media category) to CNN (at best an instance of a media category). You might want to try comparing weblogs to TV.

Never mind. No contest. And frankly, I don't know why Pew's report would get under anyone's skin to begin with.