Our influence is spreading...

Peggy Noonan has a pretty good column today where she talks about us.

I find one thing about slightly disturbing, though:

Some publisher is going to decide that if you can't fight blogs, you can join them. He'll think like this: We're already on the Internet. That's how bloggers get and review our reporting. Why don't we get our own bloggers to challenge our work? Why don't we invite bloggers who already exist into the tent? Why not take the best things said on blogs each day and print them on a Daily Blog page? We'd be enhancing our rep as an honest news organization, and it will further our branding!

Uh, Peggy?  The Dullest Moaning Snooze already does it.  And from what I've read of it, they pretty much suck at it.

Their one saving grace is that they print a color pic of Kevan Ann Willey, who's one of the cutest newspaperfolk ever.  Otherwise...maybe they should leave this to us professionals (*cough*)...