Pompous Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is, for lack of a better word, dim. And old. Case in point, he was, for some inexplicable reason, asked to speak at Web Summit 2.0 in San Francisco this week. During a panel discussion with Google executive Marissa Mayer, he accused her of "unintentionally encourag[ing] promiscuity." (Odds are he never would have said the same thing to Sergey Brin.)

What's he pissed off about? The same thing most print publishing relics are: the future.

Specifically, Thomson wanted to know why, when computer users typed "Hamid Karzai" into Google News, the link citations appear in a "tiny, tiny" font. (Oh, and check out how not tiny-tiny said links are. Unreal.) The reason is this: you, Thomson, are not the story. The Wall Street Journal is not the story. Print publications are not the story. Ever. Hamid Karzai, in this instance, is the story. Have you all forgotten why you got into this whole writing business to begin with? Let us help: to disperse information.

Aside: we love Mayer's genius response. She makes the greatest noises while Thomson rambles. We feel her pain. Fortunately, listening to an old-school scribe talk about UI and web design is like listening to a New Yorker talk about surfing or burritos; it's hard to take them seriously. Don't stress it, Mayer.