Ed Driscoll makes a good point here:

I’ve been a big fan of Jack Shafer’s media columns at Slate, but the title of this piece, “Two Cheers for Andrew Breitbart — Sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way” is curious.

As Ed points out, Andrew was a key part of the Drudge Report and helped launch The Huffington Post; has co-authored a book on Hollywood; runs a big news aggregator and two more specialized websites; and, aside from all that, writes a weekly column for The Washington Times. In what sense is he a media “outsider” and some no-name bureau hack at The Junk Stock Times the “insider”?

I’m reminded of the (apocryphal) Fleet Street headline: “Fog In Channel. Continent Cut Off.” In this case: Fog in Journalism Guild front yard. Entire planet cut off.