If you haven't followed this story, you really should read it. Yesterday Eason Jordan, head of CNN's news division, resigned because of comments that he had made suggesting that US troops had deliberately targeted journalists.
For better or for worse, this is definitely something that bloggers made happen. Eason Jordan and Dan Rather would still have their jobs well into the indefinite future were it not for bloggers. The lesson, I'm sure, has not been learned by either the MSM (mainstream media) or the corporate world . . . yet! But the lesson is: news media corporations, and corporations in general, have an enormous new vulnerability, and that is due to the blogosphere. The vulnerability consists in this: they are now accountable --which is to say, they are subject to intense scrutiny and reporting--at levels that they never had to endure before. The sooner they understand the implications of that fact, the better it will be for them.
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