ADAM PENENBERG has posted a Media wish list for 2005 over at Wired News. But one of his wishes — that bloggers would start breaking news — has already been granted. It was Bill Ardolino at INDCJournal who, by virtue of getting his own forensic document expert, presented the first strong evidence that the CBS RatherGate documents were forgeries. (He interviewed CBS reporters and producers, too.) And don’t forget Zeyad’s many scoops, involving everything from anti-terrorist protests in Baghdad (picked up by the Weekly Standard) to his reports of war crimes by U.S. troops.

And, of course, there was lots of election-year reporting, not just punditry, from blogs like DaschlevThune and Power Line, or Ryan Sager’s photos of antiwar protests at the RNC, or this firsthand report debunking the AP’s bogus-boos story, or reports like this one from a 10,000-person pro-war rally that media outlets ignored, to name just a few examples.

I’m all for more original reporting by blogs, which is one reason why I’m constantly evangelizing for photoblogging and blog video, but if Penenberg wants to see more of that sort of thing, perhaps he should pay more attention to it when it happens. A little encouragement goes a long way, after all.