New Age of Media Responsibility?

You can always tell when media types know their hands have been caught in the Hit Piece to Sink Bush cookie jar.

They whine and blame someone else.

Roger Simon tutors the The New York Times that they had better get used to accountability and responsibility enforced by bloggers (bizarre we even have to monitor professionals who purport to be unbiased).

The NYT, to its credit, was honest enough to [admit its biases], declaring itself a "liberal" newspaper through its ombudsman Daniel Okrent. Most bloggers I know are pretty up front. But the real guardian of honesty is diversity - the market itself. Despite its wounds, the NYT et al are going to have to live with a new reality. We're here to stay and there will only be more of us.

Will they listen?

Or, will they whither on the vine (not that we should be surprised, the Los Angeles Times hasn't been a real newspaper for years)?