Email Of The Day

A reader writes:

Today's Quote of the Day from Matt Taibbi made something gel for me - something I think you've been illustrating for a long time. Forgive me my slowness, but damn: journalism is dying because of (a) the challenge from the blogosphere and (b), the inexplicable, getting-worse-every-day cowardice of the MSM in the face of established power. But maybe (b) is explicable - by (a). Reporters are clinging to their privileged relationships with sources because
all they've got...