"Political Blogging Is Over"

From the Wash Times, about a panel on blogging at the Brookings Institution today:

"The fact that Brookings is doing such a symposium automatically confirms the fact that political blogging is over. If something turns up in the dusty halls of a think tank, then it's already passe," [Slate's Jack] Shafer observed yesterday.

Whole thing here. Shafer, a fan of H.L. Mencken and pool-pisser, is one of the participants himself.