I love the bitterness of the ancien regime in news - ponder Time magazine's Michael Kinsley, as he laments the fact that other people are writing about things:

But now everyone has a blog. The opportunity for us all to express an opinion is wonderful. Having to read all those opinions isn't.

Yeah, it would be so, so much better if we could return to the world of three TV channels and the newspapers, so that all of us peasants out here could just sit back and have our opinions handed to us by our betters. And it's oh so hard:

And if readers are suffering from information overload, imagine the new life of political writers. First, they have to be totally up to speed to make sure that some blogger or newspaper competitor hasn't already made the point or reported the factlet that they intend to write about. Second, they have to be fast, fast, fast to beat that other fellow to the punch. This has always been true in journalism and used to be considered part of the fun. But it's less fun when half the people in the world could now be that other fellow.

Pity the poor opinion journalist, who's suddenly realized that his opinion counts for exactly what it's worth - long gone are the days when he could ponder a story for a week and then opine about it on Sunday. Yeah, I feel his pain :)