So bloggers blew it on election day. According to a commentary by Steve Rosenbush at BusinessWeek, blowing a story isn’t the unique province of bloggers. “Young bloggers and aging ink-stained wretches with cigarette burns on their faded tweed sport jackets have all missed and mishandled their share of stories,” Rosenbush writes. But bloggers, he says, are now part of the “media food chain.”

There are good bloggers and bad bloggers, hacks and diligent reporters, just as in the worlds of print and TV. From now on, the bloggers and print and broadcasting folks are going to be an important check-and-balance on one another. Eventually, the walls between them will come tumbling down.