Tag: Blogosphere
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Tue Apr 10, 2007 at 09:56:54 PM EST
Tags: Blogosphere, Media (all tags)
Posted on Tue Apr 10, 2007 at 09:56:54 PM EST
Tags: Blogosphere, Media (all tags)
As always, speaking for me only.
Via Yglesias, Eric Alterman describes in stark terms what the MSM punditry dislikes about blogs:
Back in the pre-Internet days of yore, political punditry was the best job in journalism and one of the best anywhere. You could spout off on anything you wanted, and almost nobody would call you on it, much less find a place to publish and prove you wrong. . . . The advent of the Internet--particularly the blogosphere--has changed all that. Now, not only are the things pundits say and write preserved for posterity; there are legions of folks who track pundit pronouncements, fact-check their statements and compare them with previous utterances on the same and similar topics. . . .
All true, and brilliantly stated. But I worry about the same type of process happening with the blogs. Most Left bloggers are indeed quite good. Some, like Digby and Glenn Greenwald, are consistently brilliant. But no one should be immune from questioning and disagreement. I hope we can avoid the logrolling nature that became, and still is, the MSM punditry.
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