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David Lazarus, biz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle (yes, a bit of an oxymoron), slammed a sledgehammer on the nail the other day when he went after the free-loading pinheads who believe that everything on the net should be free and that bloggers are the reportorial equivalent of news pros, reporters, editors, etc: So who will get the story?   This is the height of uninformed idiocy in today's Web 2.0 world,. and the downside of the Information Age.  People who believe they are fully informed because they read shoot-from-the-keyboard bloggerheads at the exclusion of everything else -- with whom they always agree, btw --  remind me of the pathetic people who believe they're warding off cancer by applying strict regimens of yoga, aroma therapy, herbs, and crystals hanging from their rear-view mirrors.  Moreover, the incredible number of young people who get their "news" exclusively from The Daily Show does not bode well for the future of democracy, if you believe in the quaint notion that an informed electorate is the foundation of one.  This is not good, folks.  Not good at all...