He wrote it before I could

Read Tom Mangan's comments on journalists blogging. Reading comments from New York Times' digital editor, Len Apcar, is enough to make anyone's blood boil:

Blogs are a fine medium, says Apcar, and he's been introducing staff-written blogs to NYTimes.com in recent months -- and hints that more experiments are to come. But in terms of a staff member writing a personal blog: forget it, for the most part.

Mangan points out an obvious problem here: It's called freedom of the press.