Do I think that a thousand reporters could be trusted today to make the same call that we did in 1979? I wonder. Even back then, there was the fear that some rogue reporter would ignore the pleas and go with the story. In today's journalism world, I fear that some blogger or counterculture ideologue using journalism as a political tool rather than as a mechanism for dispensing straight information, would make the wrong call. I hope I'm wrong about that.
I really don't think the bloggers are the problem.
*cough* (newyorktimes) *cough*
In a word, no.
But the main offender, now, is not some blogger or counterculture types who just have access to newswires, but the NY Times.