In her Wall Street Journal column this morning (“Keeping America Safe From the Ranters”), Noonan yearns for a new generation of media shills to carry on the state’s agenda, with class, dignity, and humanity, just as the Elders of journalism, or Tribal Chieftains, did before them. She writes:
Who are the Elders? They set the standards. [...]

The old dinosaur, Richard Posner, comes up with his best material yet.
“The bloggers are parasitical on the conventional media,” Posner wrote. “They copy the news and opinion generated by the conventional media, often at considerable expense, without picking up any of the tab. The degree of parasitism is striking in the case of those blogs [...]