Do have a look at Iain Dale's sort-of fisking (it's not really a fisking so much as a total destruction) of Mary Dejevsky's column in today's Indie.

It's astonishing that a leader writer and columnist should berate a blogger for "assuming they have something to say and that others want to hear about it". I am well aware when I write something, whether on this site or in a column, that my opinion on most subjects is merely that - my opinion. And that to offer that opinion to the wider world is, of itself, an act of some arrogance. To criticise a blogger for offering their opinion - in a newspaper column, duh - is the very definition of hypocrisy. As it happens, Ms Dejevsky's own assumption that she has something to say - something worthwhile, that is - and that others want to hear about it is now demonstrably wrong. She doesn't. And we don't.

Dale's post is actually rather cruel - his annihilation of Dejevsky's drivel is so complete that I started to feel a bit sorry for her by the end (nah, I didn't really). Haven't you been told it's wrong to mock the afflicted, Iain?