An apt, if vulgar, metaphor comes to mind, but I digress...
Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Late Nite FDL:”PIQUANT”??!!: ". . .The Progressive Blogosphere is Nirvana (the band, not the state of mind), and soft-left establishment rags like Time are, well, Winger. Even little Brandon Nyhan in his weaselly cri de coeur last week admits that the great frigates of 'opinion journalism' (whatever that means) have suffered heavy damage to their previously impregnable hulls and are now rapidly taking on water.
It’s because of the war, stupid. If the last five years have shown us anything, it is the fact that we can’t trust you. You all stood by with your hands in your pockets while a reckless and power-crazed administration sold you a pack of lies and took our nation to war against another sovereign nation, unprovoked. Iraq was no threat to the United States. But it is NOW! So everything you people say now is suspect. You can’t be relied upon to tell the truth, to be curious, or to fulfill your traditional role as watchdog against unchecked corruption in the halls of power.
And that’s why the blogosphere’s numbers keep getting bigger even as newspapers and news magazines see their circulation shrinking and dwindling before their very eyes. . ."
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