Pajama Pundits

London targeted again

From Sky News:

Bombers have again targeted London's transport system - with up to four explosions reported.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the devices were set off across the city "almost simultaneously".

He added that the explosions were small and that police had the situation under control.

Instapundit notes behavior of "idiot" correspondents:

Some idiot correspondent asked Blair if the attacks were his fault because of the Iraq war. And others are taking an equally negative line -- one asks if the propaganda war against terror is being lost.

I do like his translation of John Howard's logical and polite answer:

Translation: You're idiots, cowards, and political hacks. Yes! The preening, point-scoring irresponsibility of the press, which is if anything worse in Britain than in America, is one of the most striking things about this war, and it will be decades before it recovers. If it does.

It's time to note (again) that a free press is no guarantee of an intelligent press. How many times has the 'blogosphere' been characterized by "professional" journalists as unworthy, supposedly because it's just a bunch of people with opinions and an agenda. Isn't it time they acknowledged that is exactly what they've been for decades? Their denigration of the blogosphere is properly called projection.

SemiOnager (mail):
It brings back the irony of things like the Doonesbury cartoon lambasting bloggers for not being 'smart enough' to become 'real journalists'... as if a) that comment was being written in some forum other than a cartoon strip, and b) the 'professional journalists' have shown themselves to be either 'smart' at all, or worthy of emulation.
7.21.2005 12:28pm