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From CNN's Jeff Greenfield, a guy widely liked left, right, and center. [UPDATE: Now with official transcript from CNN.com.]

GREENFIELD: Yes, and you know what, even though I work for CNN and I've worked for other news organizations, I think — this is the optimist in me, Wolf — I think the fact there is now this ability for critics of mainstream media to get their voices heard, and to be paid attention to, even if they come from the most obscure corners. One of the CBS executives said, and I'm in a statement he regrets, that there's a big difference between established news organization and guys sitting at home in front of their computers in their pajamas. Well, in this one, you know, the guys in the pajamas are the guerrilla warriors and look much better than at was at one time the most prestigious organization in the world. This is the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and that tradition.

And the questions they raised seem to me to look a lot sharper than the defense that CBS News threw up. And if we have to be better at what we do and pay more attention to our critics and to our — to the eyeballs out there, I think in the long run that's a good thing. I hope.

Greenfield gets it. If only he had used the term, "Pajamahadeen." I'm sure the "guerrilla warriors" metaphor isn't a cooncidence.

[Posted 09/20 12:59 PM]