Great Regulars: The Enquirer's Web site puts its own spin

on the changing media world: "Today, Tabloid is the new mainstream." In other words, tabloids, blogs, cable TV, radio talk shows, and what some still insist on calling "alternative" media belong in the same tank with the big fish (who are, admittedly, getting smaller all the time).

"The media world is changing," says [Barry] Levine, "and newspapers and TV networks have to realize they need to grow and maybe expand their practices, to make their work relevant again."

Hugh Hewitt, a legal scholar, talk-radio host, blogger, and new-media advocate, says by e-mail that "the Edwards story is an indictment of the entire [mainstream media] and ought to render ineligible any newspaper that covered Edwards but dismissed the story."

from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: Pulitzer for the National Enquirer?

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