"You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances (on network news) and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing."
What he dosent realize is that everyone KNOWS you can't trust the Blogger, so you must verify what he says.
The bloggers have rightly exposed that the "multiple layers of checks and balances" is a myth.
We're our own checks and balances... no matter how long you've been at this, you can't get away with pushing BS, because one of the thousands of others who read FR will call you on it.
So if they're analyzing checks and balances, we have them all. The Old Media has yet to prove that they have any checks and balances at all. What's to stop, for example, a fabricated political hit on the President a month out from the election? As we can see, whatever checks and balances allegedly exist in the MSM are - to put it politely - woefully inadequate.