WHAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CHICAGO SUN-TIMES REPORT on the CBS forged-documents story is that it treats Power Line and other blogs as just another news source:

The morning after the “60 Minutes II” airing, the Internet was buzzing with claims that the documents were forged.

Powerlineblog first aired speculation that there was persuasive evidence from the typefaces and spacing that the documents supposedly prepared in the age of typewriters in the early 1970s showed the unmistakable characteristics of computer printing.

Another blogger, Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal, who had read Powerline, said, “I decided to find a top typeface expert and ran his analysis on my Web site.”

Ardolino’s expert, Philip D. Bouffard, is a nationally recognized forensic authority in typewriter and electronic typefaces.

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, John Podhoretz writes: “The populist revolution against the so- called mainstream media continues.”

Drudge reports that CBS has launched an internal investigation into what went wrong.

UPDATE: James Lileks:

Blogs haven’t toppled old media. The foundations of Old Media were rotten already. The new media came along at the right time. Put it this way: you’ve see films of old buildings detonated by precision demolitionists. First you see the puffs of smoke – then the building just hangs there for a second, even though every column that held it up has been severed. We’ve been living in that second for years, waiting for the next frame. Well, here it is. Roll tape. Down she goes. And when the dust settles we will be right back where we were 100 years ago, with dozens of fiercely competitive media outlets throwing elbows to earn your pennies.

And that will be an improvement. It might not be an improvement over the media that some media folks claim we’ve had in recent decades, but it will be an improvement over the media that we’ve actually had.