Stalingrad in 1944

PowerLine, a conservative blog from the Twin Cities, reprints a column by Phil Boas, deputy editorial page editor at The Arizona Republic, on blogs' effect upon the news media. He's positive on the development.

Here’s what newspaper editors and writers should know about this new Internet phenomenon. Bloggers don’t have much respect for you. You are the "legacy media," the MSM. You’re the Roman Catholic Church to their Martin Luther and his new high-speed cable modem. To Hugh Hewitt (hughhewitt.com), the blogosphere’s leading cheerleader and one of its most polished practitioners, you are Stalingrad in 1944. Your institutions are hollowed out and your walls are scorched.

But of course, Stalingrad held, didn’t it. And that gets me to the second definition of bloggers. They are your light in the tunnel.

The whole thing is pretty short and a good read