The Times on political bloggers
Today’s New York Times magazine has a long feature article on the experiences of today’s top political bloggers, with special focus on the people behind Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, and Daily Kos. There’s a lot of inside baseball, but I find it fascinating to see a different perspective on bloggers I read each day.
The article makes me not want to hang out with any of the three, portraying Cox as venal, Marshall humorless, Moulitsas ego-maniacal. But that’s ok, it’s not like I’d want to hang out with Hemingway either; it’s enough to respect their work.
One outstanding quote/factoid: “A pizza-stained paper plate sat between [The Daily Kos’] Moulitsas and [Eschaton’s] Atrios. Together, they have more readers than The Philadelphia Inquirer.”
Update: Some conservative bloggers are upset that the piece focused on liberal ones: “You might think that those [conservative bloggers, Little Green Footballs, PowerLine, FreeRepublic, etc.] might be the bloggers the NYTimes would talk to– you know, the ones actually making news.”
Update II: Steve Gilliard: The real hero in this is not any blogger, but Henry Copeland of Blogads.
September 26th, 2004 at 1:25 pm
These blogs are simple vanity of some individuals ‘who know more and are better than you.’
They do not allow open comments, but will allow you to print out there writing.
September 26th, 2004 at 1:40 pm
Of the blogs mentioned in the post: Kos, Eschaton, LGF and Gilliard allow comments; Wonkette, TPM and PowerLine do not. FreeRepublic is a forum site, it’s all comments.