A muckraking blogger HIRES journalists

another milestone for the blogging phenomenon." The New York Times has shrunk its staff 5% over the past year. Here's somebody who's tripling his staff," Mr. Copeland said. "That's a real shocking kind of inflection point."

Henry Copeland of blogads sees Josh Marshall's Talkingpoints.com as an indicator of a tipping point in journalism. Marshall investigates congressional corruption, like the current investigation of Abramoff and has been asking readers to donate to a muckraker fund so he can hire reporters to cover the details of scandals that are not getting any MSM scrutiny. New York Times cuts staff, blogger adds staff. Hmm, students of mine, think about THAT for a bit... blogs