Unauthorized Journalists

On Saturday evening at a Second Amendment Foundation reception, that point was brought home when the pair of bloggers who uncovered and then doggedly pursued the story that is now the "Gunrunner/Fast and Furious" scandal...

Their fine work, individually and collectively, may well be the tipping point that convinces industry leaders that the new media contains both solid writers and responsible journalists, despite the fact most don't have business cards with familiar logos or mastheads. [More]

I almost hung up on a snotty CNN producer some months back when he deferred investigating Gunwalker unless we gave up our sources to him because they "need to be more careful than bloggers."

Of course the commie statist dinosaur media solution is government subsidies, along with a "progressive" tax for those who "overproduce information."