Patterico draws our attention to the Washington Post's Tina Brown, who earns the sour-grapes-big-media-quote-of-the-week prize:
Fear of missing the bandwagon is behind all the hype about the brilliance of bloggers who blew the whistle. You'd think "Buckhead," who first spotted the flaws in the documents, is the cyberworld's Woodward and Bernstein. Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes. In fact, cyberspace is populated by a coalition of political obsessives and pundits on speed who get it wrong as much as they get it right. It's just that they type so much they are bound to nail a story from time to time.
Well, I'm sure she felt a helluva lot better after writing that. Unfortunately the sour grapes hit the alimentary tract shortly thereafter and Ms. Brown spent the rest of the day trying to work out which end to put on the toilet. Which is where her kind of invective belongs.
What I think really gets the goat of media like Ms. Brown is that it wasn't the bloggers who missed the bandwagon.
Don't you get the feeling that many of the Old Media are just plain jealous? They got caught with their pants down and are unable to admit the fact. Like Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, they are crying out for the world to stop so they can catch up and lead.
You know when you get insulted by the likes of WaPo and Jonathan Klein that you must be doin' sumthin' right. All the more reason for bloggers to carry on out there.
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