SITTING ACROSS from the very pleasant Soledad O’Brien, I got the impression that she had been well briefed and may even have dipped in my new book Blog, but I was certain by interview’s end that she was not an enthusiast of the blogosphere. I’d had the same feeling upon completion of a four way conversation on Fox & Friends a couple of hours earlier, though the trio there was just as pleasant and welcoming as Soledad. I was a representative from the Blogger Nation–and a pretty dismal one at that, according to the blogs of the left–and the great fathers and mothers of Big Media would treat me kindly, even indulgently.

So I find myself slipping into deep Noah mode: When interacting with my colleagues in broadcast, I will answer their questions and tell them that the flood is not just coming but has begun. But I do not expect they will believe me.