Veteran Washington Correspondent Blames Bloggers for Iraq War.

“What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re journalists,” Thomas said. “And, they certainly don’t have our standards. They don’t have our ethics, and so forth. There’s a deterioration, reporters laid down on the job in the run up to this [the Iraq] war.”

The scariest thing about this comment is that she is lamenting that the power to influence minds and hearts is with the people. She laments that the press are losing the hegemony on release and dissemination of information. A confessed liberal - this old woman has masqueraded as an objective journalist for way too long. People need to recognize her for what she is - a partisan hack.