Blogs are just like the Wild West. Nobody can tell anyone else what to do. There are no laws and nobody to enforce them anyway. It was just a matter of time before someone would be confident enough to state outright what so many had concluded, and do it on a forum that MSM had quoted when they talked about the Blogosphere. Most of the time the anonymous opinions of amateurs matter little to MSM, except when they are behind the public and want to catch up quick. MSM, celebrities and politicians inhabit the same bubble. They can see the outside world, but its sound is muffled. They can’t taste or feel it either. And they definitely don’t want to smell it. MSM turns to citizen-journalists on some occasions, mostly to do with problems of geography and timing. MSM may immediately promote a blogger to real journalist status in a remote town where a disaster took place, at least until the professional attention-hogs arrive. Then they dispatch the blogger back to his or her basement and pajamas, amateur. MSM also turns to bloggers when a story is too ugly, slimy or distasteful to cover, but newsworthy nonetheless. At least they know their limitations in the