'The way it is today isn't how it was'

If you've got any friends who don't understand the journalistic power of the blogosphere, Joanne Jacobs gives a lively and succinct overview of the Rathergate scandal.

She names the blogs that broke the story (unlike a recent New York Times story that purports to talk about "Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail" and ends up focusing on the lefty bloggers who, at best, had nothing to do with identifying the forgeries), and she does it without a lot of impenetrable jargon.