It’s Friday, and we’re trying to get an early jump on our New Year’s Resolutions (in our best Patrick Swayze Road House voice: ‘Be nice.’), but geez Scoop Jackson, can you get it together?

From time to time, we’ve treated Scoop Jackson like the Ravens defense treated Ben Roethlisberger a couple weeks ago. Merciless, relentless, pounding. Most of the time, he’s deserved it. Occasionally, we’ve just piled on.

But now that Scoop’s gone and bogarted someone else’s thoughts and ideas and not attributed them to their correct source (his Colin Cowherd moment), we’ll say it slow and hope it sinks in: Journalism in 2006 isn’t what it was in 2001. There’s a new checks and balances system in the form of bloggers, and they’re watching the big boys. It’s happened in politics, it’s happened in entertainment, and now it’s going down in sports. So get your act together.

Orange Roundie Archives (Yay Sports)
That is Not a Scoop! (3 Man Lift)

[Update: Problem solved. Scoop blamed his editors, and ESPN quickly moved to add the link to his story, so sayeth Deadspin. Crisis averted. And cheers go up from a tiny corner of the blogosphere]