I wonder if Kathleen Parker would like to take back her recent column - the one that fretted about the lack of restraint on the part of bloggers, and the near superhuman efforts at accuracy that the mainstream press *cough* strives for *cough*:

Although I've been a blog fan since the beginning, and have written favorably about the value added to journalism and public knowledge thanks to the new "citizen journalist," I'm also wary of power untempered by restraint and accountability.

Say what you will about the so-called mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its own members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.

Right. Like, say Katrina reporting. Or perhaps she meant the reporting on those miners who were trapped? Or possibly she meant that reporting on the re-introduction of wolves? I for one am so glad that those underpaid, hardworking souls in the newsroom have all those editors and fact checkers *cough* backing them up *cough*. Unlike us unrestrained bloggers. Gosh forbid.