I guess Kathleen Parker does not like competition.
But loves people like DanRather and MaryApes.
That is precisely the point. Accountability and power has shifted from the editor to the reader. As the Guttenberg Bible (and the printing press) changed the world, so will the blogosphere and the internet.
A very incoherent article by a usually very coherent Parker. So many bloggers are not professional journalists. So what? The net (no pun intended) good of bloggers far outweighs any so-called harm people like Parker see in them. Would she seriously like to see the days before the bloggers re-emerge? The gist of her "argument" is risable. So what if some bloggers are irresponsible. They have caused professional journalists to stay on their toes. Parker must have just had a fight with her significant other just before she wrote this tripe.