CATHERINE SEIPP has a great article on weblogs at the American Journalism Review. I like the Dennis the Menace analogy.

UPDATE: Seipp quotes Alex Beam as saying that bloggers hate him because he’s liberal. Naw. Bloggers like TAPPED a lot, and it’s at least as liberal as Beam. Jim Treacher says it best:

Dude, bloggers dislike you not because you write for a “liberal” newspaper, but because you’re a sneering dickhead who tried to pull one over on Lileks. I’m sure it wasn’t fun when it blew up in your face, but you need to get over it. You made your bed; now quit blaming the rest of us because we pointed and laughed when you shat in it.

Yep. Treacher helpfully provides a link to Pampers.Com.