This article uses the phrase 'checks and balances' twice; once referring to bloggers and once to journalists. This term originated in regard to concerns of one branch of government running amok without a counter balancing control. It is the citizens who are supposed to be free. The criminal and civil court system regulates private conduct. Checks and balances on speech are known as 'prior restraints'. This means silencing citizens for what they might say, which is a prime objective of political correctness. Cloaking totalitarian thinking in borrowed and misused terms makes it no less totalitarian. It's our freedom that this author is really complaining about.
Well put.