Their reax to blogs is frustrating beyond belief. For at least 50 years, they were a voice of editorial and reporting sanity against the march of what I see as over-the-top liberalism in its various forms. Their editorials have often had more solid and meaningful hard economic news than most MSM business reports.

Now that WSJ has a very useful potential set of allies in the blogosphere, they act like “we” (meaning all blogs, not just righties) don’t really matter much and are a bunch of rabble. The fact is that “we” (right and left, but IMO mostly right) are turning over rocks that often buttress WSJ’s worldview (except on immigration) while at the same time delivering body blows to the credibility of papers like the NYT, WaPo and LAT, and they don’t even seem to appreciate that it’s happening.

It’s especially weird because WSJ mostly embraced as allies the blogs’ 1980s predecessors in the form of Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media.

Then to give this punk Rago all the column inches he got to write his screed — Zheesh.

Overall — a really strong publication with two huge blind spots (immigration and blogs).