I love the taste of irony in the morning

Mark Evanier found a column from the L.A. Times that casts aspersions on bloggers (and blogging) because they're not real journalists and don't do any real research or reporting. And then offers as an example Josh Marshall.

Now, never mind that Josh's blog is award-winning, or that he's often right, always smart and one of those big bloggers that the rest of us link to and say: Here. Read Josh. He says it better. Like I say, forget all that because mostly it's a matter of opinion.

But what isn't a matter of opinion is that he does, as Mark points out, actually a fair amount of research and reporting. So it sure seems strange to cite him as an example of how bloggers don't do any of that, doesn't it?

Josh thought it did, so he asked the writer of the piece about it. Turns out...well, see for yourself how it turns out. Savor that irony.