With all due respect to the present company, bloggers can no more displace the MSM than Linux can displace Windows: because the MSM has the money. As much as I appreciate blogs (and I’m typing this message on a Linux box), blogs will never be much more than an annoyance to the MSM.

Granted, in certain rare situations the blogosphere can affect the MSM. The CBS/forged documents story is one such instance – though then only because the documents were so childishly bad that the fraud was detectable even from a low-resolution PDF image. Don’t expect whoever perpetrated that fraud to make that sort of mistake again.

BTW, Jill, the CBS story comes to mind when I think of “liberal media”. Here is a story based on forgeries so crude that they shouldn’t have fooled a child, yet it is rushed onto the air by professional journalists who are so eager to nail Bush that they abandoned all professional judgement. Can you think of anything in the Clinton years that comes close to that? I cannot.