Me and Judy

Hugh Hewitt, author of the best-selling book "Blog" (which you should buy), on CNBC's "Kudlow and Cramer" last night:

HH: Larry, in 1999, there were two dozen blogs. Today, there are seven million. David Sifry of Technorati says 40,000 new ones a day are being created. Some of them like mine and Powerline and Instapundit, and on the left there are a lot of good lefty bloggers like Pressthink.org and Jeff Jarvis over at Buzz Machine. All of these people are changing influence or opinion before the newspapers come out in the morning. They are setting the information curve that people have to absorb. I was stunned when Judy Woodruff at a panel I was on in Washington yesterday, she preceeded the panel, she was asked about the Eason Jordan story by a blogger friend of mine, and she didn't know about it. I mean don't they read the blogs at CNN? You cannot put your head in the sand and not see that the information processing in the United States, it's sensory system, has been completely revolutionized. That's what's happening.

When I talked with Woodruff, she did seem simply stunned that Jordan could have said something like he did.