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For awhile now, CNN has featured blogs as part of The Situation Room, but this week, the cable network went a step further in using blogs as a primary source.

When CNN.com ran its story on the arrest of a Homeland Security official, they took their picture straight from the pages of Joshua Michah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo.

While it’s just further evidence of the blogs’ influence over mainstream media, I have to wonder if at some point, the bloggers will rise up and ask that their work be credited. After all, don’t bloggers have rights, too?