Red Angel Dragnet

Myths are running wild in the newspaper debate, and those of a political bent have naturally turned the discussion towards their favorite topic: Discrediting new media, including blogs, this time by emphasizing the marginalia and junk science that has arisen in some corners with the tsunami story.

The NYT cites the Democratic Underground. But that site is not, technically, a blog. It's a bulletin board, and the political equivalent of the Free Republic, another general forum for hot-faced sputtering.

(A nerdy quibble? Well, what if we confused these guys with these guys when opining on newsprint media?)

In the wake of events from Southeast Asia blogs have again demonstrated they can respond with more agility, veracity, and even (this must really gall them) emphasis on the social good than the paper behemoths of the old media, working on the daily cycle of tree destruction. Even the people in the region see this.

UPDATE: You have to get up pretty early to beat Instapundit, and my alarm literally didn't ring this morning.