One of the more annoying qualities of the so-called blogosphere is the incessant, sophomoric carping about the so-called mainstream media, or “MSM.” Some bloggers are great and some big media companies suck, but blogging doesn’t replace good reporting, and good reporting requires, at least for the foreseeable future, mainstream media companies with the cash required to hire good reporters and underwrite their hunches and peregrinations. So it was a pleasure to see CNET, a pure online news organization that employs good reporters and editors as well as a number of good bloggers, break the news that Steve Jobs would today announce that Apple was shifting to Intel chips. That was a great scoop, and it provides cause for hope that the Internet can bring together the best qualities of the traditional MSM even as it spreads out into new forms of info gathering and dumping.