Mal Kline covers a new study published by Harvard, “Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment.” Its authors in part blame bloggers for “‘public confusion about what the news is’” and lament that “as late as 2000, more than half of America’s practicing journalists had either no college degree or a degree in a field other than journalism.”

Kline tartly replies that it’s bloggers who have in fact have been breathing ”new life” into the news industry and that “the deterioration in journalistic objectivity tracks nicely with the growth in journalism schools.”