Vive la revolution, I say. My fellow hacks have nothing to lose but their pretensions. Blumenthal's lawsuit, dormant and almost forgotten, has re-emerged. By any standard, Drudge's book is padded. Of its 247 pages, forty-one are entirely blank.
Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be . . . .
We all become equal . . . . In that opinion, the justices found no particular medium to be deserving of special constitutional protection. This book notwithstanding, Drudge is an important phenomenon in journalism, and we dismiss him at our peril. He surely makes the mainstream press uneasy, but it seems wrongheaded to excommunicate him summarily. Before asserting or bolstering the case for protection, we need a much clearer sense of who ought to be protected.