“Shut up!” they explained

From the Boston Globe: “Bloggers battle old-school media for political clout”

When a writer for The New Republic, the 92-year-old doyen of elite Washington opinion journals, accused the nation's most prominent political blogger of using his online clout to hush up a potential scandal involving a former business partner, he knew there might be some backlash from the so-called ``new media."

But he didn't expect death threats.

This wasn't meant to be a big fight," a tired-sounding Jason Zengerle, senior editor for The New Republic, said in a telephone interview last week.

It sounds to me like Zengerle will be facing more enlightened dissent in the form of salad dressing and cream pies.