While media pontificator James Pinkerton credits the blogosphere for calling Dan Rather's 60 Minutes bluff, National Review locates the end of CBS News' rope with a pair of parodies that are really nothing short of Berke Breathed's mid-1980s satire of press-hyped forgeries ("The Elvis Diaries. Are they real? Will they change history? We sure hope so.").

End the farce now, Mr. Rather: at least then you can choose what's etched into your professional tombstone.

PAGE TURN, SAME BOOK: Jonah Goldberg declares the Ratherzoic Era over but insists on the Corner that journalists and private citizens like bloggers will continue to inhabit their own properties in public discourse.

Journalists, Jonah, are the milkmen of information; helpful couriers of news. If they forget for too long that there's a source consumers can independently seek out, they're in trouble.

BRAVO, BRIT!: Fox News political vanguard Special Report with Brit Hume has set the standard for network news, not only in investigating CBS's forged memos but communing with the blogosphere. Veteran reporter Jim Angle covered nearly every aspect of the controversy, pulling no punches — as has been done by central media up until now. Later on, Brit spoke to Scott Johnson of Powerline, treating him as the valued analyst he is. Ladies and gentlemen, the weblog has arrived. Many happy returns.