Bloggers: 'unapologetic biased hacks who haven't left the house in five years'

L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez complains in an NPR audio comment about the demise of newspapers and asks to be saved. But he doesn't offer any suggestions for making print newspapers more relevant in the new century, he just proposes doing TV commercials that tell people how great newspapers are just the way they are, a bargain for 50 cents.

Somehow I don't think that will turn the fleet around. Then he takes a pretty awful potshot at bloggers: "...'til all you've got to chose from are one of the thousands of fly-by-night internet news sites, or one of the millions of blogs posted by unapologetic biased hacks who haven't left the house in five years. Boy are you going to miss us."

The shirtiest bit (28 seconds) .mp3