TOM HUMPHREY has gotten some bad information:

After all, bloggers, I am instructed, do not have to follow those ironclad rules of attribution, fact-checking, logic and such that burden the daily production of stuff to print by traditionally ink-stained wretches. You can just babble like a talk show radio guy.

Or maybe he’s just been reading Dan Rather’s blog.

UPDATE: Some sounder information for Tom, here.

And here. He’s a smart guy — he’ll catch on.