I can't believe I'm actually on Duncan Black's side in this, but the article by CBS News' political analyst David Paul Kuhn keeps on getting blasted, as it deserves.
Who cares whether a blogger is a paid consultant to a campaign? It isn't like it's a surprise that political blogs are partisan. It's in their nature! Why does that have to be explained?
But what about if CBS News is in the tank for one side against another? That, as the Power Line points out, does matter. Why? Because CBS News holds itself out to be an impartial imparter of the day's events, whereas bloggers are explicitly what they are.
One of the most useful things I ever learned from reading Nietzsche is that History (or even the news) is not reported by disinterested parties ---and it is a lie to say it is. There is an ideological component in most everything we do as political beings. I'll take the musings of an ideological foe all day long so long as he has the intellectual honesty to cop to his biases. If he doesn't, then what he has to sell is irredeemably tainted and not worth consuming, anyway.