Bloggers may be patting themselves on the back for breaking the Rathergate story, but The Washington Post doesn’t see it that way. In an article in today’s edition titled Breaking the news, then becoming it, Tina Brown writes, “Fear of missing the bandwagon is behind all the hype about the brilliance of bloggers who blew the whistle. You’d think ‘Buckhead,’ who first spotted the flaws in the documents, is the cyberworld’s Woodward and Bernstein. Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes. In fact, cyberspace is populated by a coalition of political obsessives and pundits on speed who get it wrong as much as they get it right. It’s just that they type so much they are bound to nail a story from time to time. “