SPEAKING OF DISSING COLUMNISTS FOR BLOG-BASHING, read this letter by Mark Friesen in Romenesko’s MediaNews, dissing the Mercury News’s Mike Cassidy for his dumb blog article. Excerpt:

Oh, yippee! Another newspaper columnist sucking up newsprint by taking shots at blogs! How brilliant! What is it with these guys? Did everyone get the same E-Z COLUMN TOPICS spam? And why is it they make fun of people that blather on endlessly about trivial and boring topics? Afraid of competition? If the only blogs Cassidy can find are people “talking off the tops of their heads,” then he needs to give his browser a bit more of a workout.

There’s more, too. Even journos are making fun of this stuff now.