The Colbert Report

Please, Mr. Atrios


I've got your wanker right here:





Andrew Keen visits The Colbert Report to flog his book, "The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture."


The money quote (sans Colbert's riffs) about those debbil bloggers:

They make stuff up, they're anonymous. Do you think there were weapons of mass destruction? Where did you learn that? And you're on the Internet all day? I think you're supporting my argument. I think we need objective, professional journalists who responsibly collect the news, rather than anonymous bloggers who are often in the pay of corporations or foreign governments. That's the crisis of this medium, that's what's so troubling.

Damn those bloggers and their phony yellowcake, aluminum-tubes, and weapons-of-mass-destruction-related-program-activities bloggity posts! Why didn't we listen to what the professionals said!?