Roger L. Simon on the new Pajamas Media:

"A rather overwhelming consensus seems to have emerged that the emphasis at Pajamas Media/Blog News Service should not be on being "fair and balanced" (judged to be inexact terms for a variety of reasons), but to be "honest and transparent." This latter had many interesting and sometimes amusing permutations, but one I liked was that we should imitate Sgt. Joe Friday of the old Dragnet show and seek "Just the facts, ma'am."

Of course, opinion was not completely dismissed-there is clearly a place for it, which we will get back to in a later question-but there seems to be a yearning, at least in this part of the blogosphere, for a fact-based online news service with a hard-and-fast firewall between reporting and editorializing. Many criticized mainstream media for failing to preserve that division."