Robert Guskind, who runs the Gowanus Lounge, took Pete Hamill to task for some comments he made on the Brian Lehrer radio show earlier this week.

Apparently Hamill doesn’t think there’s any real reporting or good writing going on in the blogosphere. He believes writers need to be part of the newsroom, with real editors; he believes they need to spend time rubbing elbows with the life of the city — not sitting at computers all day.

Robert Guskind was a perfect gent and a great guest on WNYC’s great morning talk radio show. He’s gentle, polite and also smart as a whip. A pundit in the making. He agreed that Hamill, Kempton, et al (he listed a bunch of Hamill’s journalistic contemporaries) are hard to top. That said, there’s still quite a bit of good reporting happening on blogs. Guskind, for one, doesn’t sit by his computer all day. Not by a long shot. He travels all over Brooklyn getting his stories, which focus mostly on development and city planning issues in Gowanus, Long Island, Park Slope, and Williamsburg.

Go to Gowanus Lounge for his story and the PODCAST.