The blogging ladies of puck in this town are making their mark. Two months after James Mirtle's article in The Hockey News, today's Christian Science Monitor jumps on the Washington Bloggers' Bandwagon, and offering up some keen insights into the new media revolution in the story is one of our favorite new media voices, Rebecca Henshel of A View From the Cheap Seats. The Monitor notes:

"To many sportswriters, it's a scandal. To the owner of the Washington Capitals, it's the future.

Press-box seats that had been reserved for newspapermen in seasons gone by are being assigned to bloggers. A reporter from the Washington Post might find himself sitting between the gentlemen from On Frozen Blog (www.onfrozenblog.com) and Puckhead's Thoughts (http://pheadsthoughts.blogspot.com/).

That chill in the air isn't just the Verizon Center's air conditioning turned up on high."

Rebecca, relative to us, has youth on her side (ok, lots of it), and that youth affords her an important vantage in the CSM account:

"There are some [newspaper reporters] who regard it as fans being given too much freedom and intruding on what has up until now been a very exclusive club," says Rebecca Henschel, who launched her blog, A View from the Cheap Seats, at the start of last season. "It seems to be a bit of a generational thing, actually. Younger reporters are maybe more willing to put up with it than people who have been in the business for 20 or 30 years."

Rebecca, like us, recognizes the damaging role the MSM have played in their own demise in D.C. "The daughter of a longtime Capitals season-ticket holder, Henschel says the fans of the team have been "tremendously underserved" by the mainstream media."

"Because of the way blogs are produced they can provide instant information and reactions that papers won't publish until the following day," Henschel says. "People want their information fast and, until recently, the bloggers were the only ones providing that service. I think it's extremely telling that the Caps' beat writers for the two major papers in D.C. have recently created their own blogs that can be updated as needed."

We do, too, Rebecca!

Read the whole article here.