Clearly Howard Kurtz simply doesn't understand the blogosphere. He writes today that "if you respond to every whack someone takes at you on the Web, you'd never have time to eat, let alone do any reporting." Hey Howie, this is the Interweb; these people don't do reporting. They just snark at people who do.

Sigh. I know that exposing CBS's forged memos and bringing down Dan Rather is part of the blogosphere's founding fable, but I would direct bloggers to the full history of the story. They'll surely recall that Howard Kurtz (along with his talented Post colleague Michael Dobbs) did as much heavy lifting as anyone, anywhere (start here, here, here, and here) to do the hard reporting to move the story along.

Kurtz is a very good reporter. If the blogosphere had any sense of perspective, it would aspire to the standard of work he does, not call for his dismissal.