Liberal media convergence?

"Allahpundit" over at Hot Air adds some delicious new ingredients to the stew created by apparent influence of lefty blogs on mainstream news (though in the specific example here, the story was opinion journalism).

AP says it looks like Maureen Dowd borrowed a statement from Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo. Be sure to see the update consisting of Dowd's supposed explanation near the end of the post.

This makes twice in the span of four days that a major newspaper’s been caught cribbing material from nutroots blogs, which stands to reason. According to a survey of more than 200 journalists recently conducted at BYU, “despite equal awareness [of lefty and righty blogs], journalists spend more time reading posts in the liberal blogosphere.” Contain your surprise.