Just add magic journalism powder

As Jack Lail points out, it looks like the guy who broke news of Tim Russert's death on Wikipedia has been fired because, hey, you're only allowed to break news if you've been sprinkled with the magic journalism powder*. If the best this branch of The Cathedral can do to preserve the imaginary distinction between newsgatherers and non-newsgathereres is to have amateur newsgatherers fired, things are worse for professional journalism than we thought. 

*I'm sure Steve Yelvington called it this once, in late 2004. Now can't find the reference. I outsource my memory to Google and this is what happens...