You can’t expect Ma and Pa Old Media to be hep to every single popular page on the Web, and say what you will about the quality of DKos, but to admit to never having heard of it is an admission of truly staggering ignorance about the political world and of a general, gross incompetence. Would you trust a Web editor who’s never heard of Google? A sportswriter who didn’t know what steroids were? How can you trust an editorial board that hadn’t heard of what’s arguably the most powerful part of the “netroots” on either side of the political spectrum, given that the rise of Internet activism is the most important change in the body politic over the past decade? Even on just a purely Darwinian know-your-enemy level, the Trib‘s editorial staff should probably be aware that sites like DKos, Instapundit, Eschaton, michellemalkin.com, Hullabaloo, Firedoglake, RedState, the Huffington Post, and many, many others like them are making dim-bulb newspaper editorial boards totally irrelevant.
