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FireDogLake's reporting is a window into the future, as you so rightly note. I've been a journalist — reporter, editor and columnist — since 1964 and though my e-media skills are limited, I can at least recognize this new paradigm that's before us. My son, a blogger, is heading in the right direction. Blogs are the future of news dissemination; most news gathering organizations are beginning to realize it, as The Times article shows — it's patronizing tone aside. The work of Hamshire, Smith et al, as well as your work, Glenn, and the efforts of Atrios, Digby, Kos and others, are showing old foggies like me — who remember paste-pots and 'copy boys' in the news room — what this wonderful and important profession will become. Today's mass media has abdicated, as we all know. The new media will rush in to, as Churchill said be "the guardian of every right that free men prize."
Glenn Rutherford
