Now that Geraghty’s doing the NewsHour tonight, he can disabuse the idiots who want to caricature bloggers are pretend-journalists, like this questioner on the Howard Kurtz Washington Post chat today:

Bloggers are to journalism what “Entertaiment Tonight” is to television news — nothing more than infotainment and gossip. Furthermore, someone who relies on bloggers for information (or newspaper columns) is performing the same quality fact-checking that led to situations such as Jayson Blair and Dan Rather’s early retirement.