Discerning?

Bite me, Brian Daly! Or better yet, take your discerning writing and it shove it ... you know where. aka.alias has a post regarding a Toronto Star article by Brian Daly, in which he says:

Weblogs, known as blogs, are growing by bits and bytes as everyday people become self-publishers who espouse their personal views without the discerning filter of the mainstream media.

I don't know about you, but I take offense to that. The mainstream media is discerning and bloggers aren't? The mainstream media whores itself to advertisers, political platforms and other interests. They're not discerning! They've become tabloid journals that have earned the rags moniker, feeding mush with no discerning value to a torpid public. The mainstream media is slowly losing the relevancy they had in public discourse -- they're just too slow to realize it.