HOWARD KURTZ ON JOURNALISTS ON BLOGS:

Some journalists are unperturbed. CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield likes many blogs and doesn’t much worry about “the baked-potato brains who say you’re a media whore. . . . On the whole, I’m real happy to know there are a lot of people watching with the capacity to check me. I don’t think that’s chilling. It’s just another incentive to get your facts right.”

As for “smear artists” on the Internet, Greenfield says, “The freedom that it gives anonymous twerps to spew out invective — that they don’t like the way you look or think you’re an idiot or a child abuser — that’s just part of the process.”

That seems like the right attitude to me.