In a New York Times article published on FreePress.net, writer David Carr examines the power of the bloggers in A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog.

Carr puts his New Republic editors' feet to the fire over an incident in which one of their reporters anonymously posted a positive comment about the magazine's coverage on the publication's website.

The reporter, Lee Siegel was suspended and later told The Times he got carried away. Of course, the omission that the reporter of a story was so overwhelmed by the verocity of criticism that he would post a positive comment anonymously to his own blog is troubling. Where would we be without bloggers?