Well, Marty Kaplan just fucking drills it in his latest HuffPost missive. There’s been some talk about this campaign to encourage bloggers to play nice – which is not an inherently bad idea, once you get past the realities for why they play bad. But still, a theory we can all appreciate.

But Kaplan is dead-on. The NY Times seems to think the idea is all rainbows and unicorns, but those of us in the blogstream are supposed to take our cues from the mainstream media … why, exactly?

The NYT adopts a labeling policy like Kaplan recommends and I’ll do the same here.