The Big Eye Blinks

This link from WBAl Radio Website:Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg has written a diatribe bemoaning the performance of bloggers during the election. It's an uncommonly terrible article, even by CBS standards. Ok, the bloggers put out the exit polls too fast and furious, thereby potentially injuring the election process. Ok, yes, you are right CBS, however, by far the Bloggers were on top of their game when covering the many missteps of the MSM...and the political bias rampant within their journalistic jargon.//JW sends

"One of the more self-important of these blog-ops, Andrew Sullivan, declared in a newspaper article in September that the internet upstarts had become, along with cable-TV, the new 'powerbrokers in American politics and culture,' primed to unseat 'old media.' In another piece he compared the new and old thusly: 'Critics of blogs cite their lack of professionalism. Piffle. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.' That hubris was rampant through much of blogland as election night rolled round."
"Blog-ops." "Blogland." It'll hurt if I swallow.
In the cited quote, Sullivan isn't comparing anything to anything, "thusly" or otherwise. When Sullivan observes that journalism isn't a profession, he isn't guilty of hubris. He's guilty of mocking the MSM -- and mockery of the MSM was rampant well before blogging caught on. And I fail to see how Sullivan claimed that the blogosphere will replace anything. But I'm sure that more examples are forthcoming in your article. Completely, utterly sure.
"Big plans and big claims are to be expected from folks -- pajama-clad or not -- who are dabbling with new technology and new modalities of public expression. As a retired mainstream media ("MSM") journalist -- and thus a double-dinosaur -- I don't begrudge these knights of the blog-table their grandio