Alright, this is getting a bit ridiculous. John Brummett’s back with another column about Kristin Fisher’s “Choose Your News.” Obviously Ms. Fisher’s program is so ridiculous and so stupid that Mr. Brummett has now devoted three columns to in less than two weeks. I’m not sure anyone in American politics - Mr. Brummett’s playround - gets that kind of consistency. Clearly he saves it for the stuff that really sucks. Makes sense.

I have to applaud Mark Moore of Arkansas Watch for this response. Well said. And David Kinkade. And Max Brantley.

The short of it: blogs are awful because they allow unattributed comments. He writes, “Democratic news, which these modernists espouse, and interactivity, which these modernists advocate, net you such things as the online spreading via blog comment sections of horrible, absurd, vicious, and disgusting rumors . . .” Wait a minute. Isn’t Brummett about to re-launch his own blog? I guess the comments section will be turned off, which will, Mr, Brummett certainly knows, prevent any reader from taking him to task should he - God forbid - get something wrong.

Obviously The Washington Post, The New Republic, TIME and MSNBC all have it wrong. Hell, they’re ruining journalism. But nothing can be as bad as Katherine Q. Seelye of The New York Times who today in an online only column asked readers “How should Barack Obama celebrate his historic election?” She then requests, “Send us your thoughts in the next couple of days and we’ll include the best in a story we’re preparing on this subject. Send them to this space no later than 9 A.M. Tuesday.”

KATV’s on the wrong track, clearly.

UPDATE: Lance Turner breaks the biggest story of the day: Mr. Brummett and Ms. Fisher met for a face-to-face at a downtown Little Rock restaurant (think Pacino and DeNiro in the coffee shop in “Heat”.) Other bloggers are getting into the mix. Jason Tolbert of The Tolbert Report declares to Mr. Brummett: “Print is dead!” Oh my. The Fayetteville Flyer, too. And it’s not even debate day.