"Reporter" Denounces Bloggers as "Blockheads"

I found this article that appeared in the LA Times in The Impolitic. This guy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in criticism (which he is obviously good at), unleashed a tirade against bloggers:

Bloggers now are everywhere among us, and no one asks if we don't need more full-throated advocacy on the Internet. The blogosphere is the loudest corner of the Internet, noisy with disputation, manifesto-like postings and an unbecoming hatred of enemies real and imagined.

Libby gives Mr.Skube the treatment:

The patient sifting of fact? Excuse me while I vomit into my wastebasket. After six years of reading stenographic recitations of White House press releases and other authorized leaks of half-truths and outright lies reported uncritically as fact, with zero historical context that any decent blogger can uncover in 60 seconds or less in a google search, forgive my cynicism.

If the 90% of the so-called professional journalists would get off their lazy butts and start doing some real reporting again, us filthy rabble would be supporting them instead of challenging them. If Mr. Skube wants to be treated with respect for his professionalism, he might start by showing some.

Oh, by the way, Skube started his reporting career without a journalism degree. He was so successful at his profession that he decided to become a professor of journalism.