Again with the Cheetos jokes...

Via Matt, it is a strange world--or maybe just MSNBC--in which I get to see the likes of Pat Buchanan and Co. dismiss blogging as "not journalism" and people "getting it off." Yes that crack reporter Pat Buchanan...

There's a lot of status anxiety. And this gets to be its worst, in my view, among the kind of people who do the sort of pseudo-reporting associated with following the President of the United States around. Convention dictates that if I sit at a desk and read a transcript of what the press secretary said and then write about the transcript, I'm a lowly cheeto-eater. But if I sit in the White House press room and transcribe what the press secretary said, and then write about the transcript then that's journalism. Similarly, if I travel around with the president and then read the pool reports that my colleagues write and then write about that: Journalism. But if I read the newspaper account of where the president went and then write about that: Cheetos.

Roll tape...