Little Brothers Are Watching You, Fourth Estate

Now this is how it's done.
Tim Blair writes an outstanding response to a NYT article on the role of blogs in the fall of Eason Jordan.
This is why Tim's is the first site I check in the morning.

The internet has changed things for the news industry. It's amazing that the idea of journalists being answerable to the public for what they say is causing them so much consternation. Most of us get held accountable for our work all the time.

UPDATE:
From a New York Sun staff editorial today:

If one is an incident, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend, feature this - top news executives at the New York Times, CBS News, and CNN, all toppled in the past two years by scandals that were heightened by pressure from new journalistic outlets. Taken in isolation, the departures of the New York Times's executive editor, Howell Raines, and his managing editor, Gerald Boyd; the managing editor of the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, and three other CBS executives; and the executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN, Eason Jordan, would each be big events. Taken together, they suggest a news industry in the midst of a stunning revolution.

'Bout damn time.

(Sun article via commenter Fausta on Buzz Machine.)