Peggy Noonan: Bloggers Are A Thousand Points of Light

Could this be a blog manifesto for the 21st century? I don't know, but what I do know is that she sure as hell knows how to meander -- what begins as an attack on Dan Rather (woe is him) morphs into an oblique attack on Howard Fineman, a discussion of the origins of the MSM, with a little sidebar on Teddy White and the movie "Broadcast News," and ends as a primer on the mythology of Fox News as the Second Coming of the Messiah (the First Coming being the Washington Times)... and, uh, I'm losing you, babe. And how's this for self-promotion?

"Some think bloggers and internet writers of all sorts are like the 19th century pamphleteers who made American politics livelier and more vigorous by lambasting the other team in full-throated broadsides. Actually, I've said that."

Right. Dean Esmay is somewhat less critical.