Quote of the Day

From Hugh Hewitt in his response to Howard Kurtz for his failure to give the blogosphere any credit for exposing CBS and Dan Rather in Kurtz's Washington Post piece:

I do think that, generally, legacy media has figured out that the blogs are a mortal threat to their very existence, and not in some hazy far off time, but right now, this year and next. That threat is especially real to the elite political reporters/columnists who are no longer such a hot commodity. Teleprompter reading anchors have been a sort of amusing set of fossils for some time, but the rise of serious blogger-analysts working all over the web really does devalue the sort of big media reporter who could once count on the "Washington Week in Review" effect to elevate their day-jobs to a status level that, even if it didn't add anything to the paycheck (and sometimes it did), at least got them some pretty good ego strokes. Bloggers setting the pace undercuts the value of every political and media reporter working today. It would be foolish to expect this subgroup of journalists to elevate their competition for the public's benefit.