Ryan Tate at Gawker weighs in on yesterday’s Senate hearing, offering a defense of the bloggers that some in the mainstream media criticized. Specifically, he takes issue with the claim, voiced by former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, that bloggers do not cover the mundane, everyday issues like public meetings. Tate also highlights Arianna Huffington‘s argument that bloggers “chomp down on a story and stay with it, refusing to move off it until they’ve gotten down to the marrow.”