By now everyone who reads blogs has been intently following the CBS document forgery story. I'm not going to link to any of the many dozens of excellent posts because, frankly, this blog is not about politics or current events. But in this one instance, I have to note that Glenn "Blogfather" Reynolds just quoted from James Lileks:

Blogs haven't toppled old media. The foundations of Old Media were rotten already. The new media came along at the right time. Put it this way: you've see films of old buildings detonated by precision demolitionists. First you see the puffs of smoke - then the building just hangs there for a second, even though every column that held it up has been severed. We've been living in that second for years, waiting for the next frame. Well, here it is. Roll tape. Down she goes. And when the dust settles we will be right back where we were 100 years ago, with dozens of fiercely competitive media outlets throwing elbows to earn your pennies.

I think there's something to that - especially that last sentence - and even the overdramatic style has a 19th century ring to it.

Although I would guess that most lawyers are still not fully aware of it yet, the media landscape (to use a tired, old media cliche) has changed permanently. And, naturally, many of the bloggers leading the way are themselves lawyers, law professors, or others similarly situated. Viva la blog revolution!

UPDATE: Belmont Club has an analysis of the whole situation, and Powerline, which appears to have started it all, makes a prediction.