Old media's new weapon: clairvoyance

Apparently some in print media, obviously thretened by the immediacy of blogs, have decided to fight back with an innovative approach: clairvoyance. Here's how to scoop the real time of bloggers--write about the future *before* it even happens! Leave it to the open-minded lot at Harper's and that paragon of prognostication Lewis Lapham to cover the Republican Convention in print before it even started. I hear the Atlantic Monthly is responding by making Crossing Over's John Edward a regular contributor. How will blogs ever respond??

The Volokh Conspiracy citing Jacob Sullum covers it: "Perhaps the most revealing part of the article is the paragraph where Lapham pretends to have heard the speeches at the Republican National Convention that does not open until a week from today."