Blitzer Has A Backbone?

For the first time in ages, a major media figure has challenged a GOPer over facts, or rather the lack thereof. Could this signal a media turn back toward actual journalism?
 
Must Watch: Wolf Blitzer and Michele Bachmann Brawl Over the Benefits of Obamacare | Mediaite:

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer engaged in a tense and heated exchange with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Friday over a House GOP effort to defund the Affordable Care Act or force the government into a shutdown. The argument became animated over a variety of assertions Bachmann made, at one point prompting Blitzer to insist that what she asserted was flatly “not true...”