Michael Tomasky of the Guardian is really, really mad at Mayhill Fowler, who reported Obama's snide remarks about rural Pennsylvanians.

I have various quibbles, but let's cut right to the chase – namely, whether Fowler was playing by the rules in reporting Obama's remarks.

The Guardian comments are sometimes entertaining. I liked this one:

Let me summarise. The old journalism often amounted to a conspiracy between journalists and politicians against the public. Let "citizen journalists" in and the whole cosy arrangement is in danger of collapse, and the public are in danger of finding out what their lords and masters really think of them.