In a Washingtonpost.com chat yesterday, national political reporter Lois Romano said:

We are watching the blogs, and just this month The Post assigned a young reporter to cover Internet campaigning. There certainly is a new viciousness in the process often generated by the blogs. You need to know that we as reporters are not spared — if we write an article the liberals blogs do not like we will be inundated with nasty, vulgar e-mail — which has no impact on our coverage.

Oooooh, scary music.  Viciousness.  Nasty.  Vulgar.  We do all that?
Good gravy, we must be real meanies.  OK, let me say something vulgar toward the Post:  Shazbat!
The U.S. Department of Journalism must also think we’re lunatics.  Journalism Secretary David Broder recently wrote of “former Alaska senator Mike Gravel, a strident critic of almost everything and promoter of a folly — a national initiative process — that not even a deranged blogger could love.”

Now, I might be in denial about my deranged status, and I might be in denial that I promote a national initiative process, such as it is. But to be safe, I read Brother Broder’s piece while strapped to my chair after trying to fly over the cuckoo’s next.  I drooled the whole time.
So don’t worry, Washington Posties.  Your jobs are safe.  The worst harm we bloggers  could cause your pure profression is posting under the influence of acid — an acid tongue and acid keyboard.