blogging takes center stage on the daily show

I was just laying in bed thinking about putting on a coat and picking up my mail from my office, but then I decided to watch The Daily Show. Good thing I did -- the entire first ten minutes was devoted to blogs tonight. Jon Stewart talked about how a VERY Republican Jeff Gannon. (This turned out to be a fake name.) Anyway, he somehow snuck into a white house press conference and actually asked Mr. Bush a question. A blogger looked into this new reporter and found he ran a website about Republican agendas, as well as a military-themed gay male website. Oh yes, you heard me. (It was called "male corps" but the name has since changed.) Anyway, check out the full story on the blog that broke it (hosted through blogspot!!). (Be warned, there are explicit pictures on the site (that are censored, but explicit nonetheless).

The moral of the story tonight on The Daily Show is that bloggers are in fact making waves, and the newspapers and news networks can only try to downplay it because they know they are getting scooped. (Ahem, I'm specifically talking about Rathergate here.) Have other journalists gone soft?

"You don't report on reporters, no one likes a snitch!" --Stephen Colbert

I'll leave you with two wonderful quotes from Mr. Stephen Colbert...

"Fine, John, three years ago I killed a panda!"
"My real name is Ted Hitler, no relation... well, yes, there is a direct relation. Alright, I'm Adolf Hitler's grandson."