December 20, 2004

MICHAEL KINSLEY -- when blogs are better than newspapers. Mickey Kaus piles on:
Kinsley got more overall attention for his argument by making it in the blogosphere than it would have gotten if he'd printed it in the rather large conventional paper whose opinion pages he runs. And I'm not just talking "more attention" in the sense that the blogosphere is big--bigger than the conventional print-centric media elite. Kinsley's thesis got more attention not just in the blogosphere but within the conventional print-centric media elite, even from those who pay little attention to blogs, because he got it posted on some blogs. ... Crudely put, Tim Russert and Al Hunt and William Safire and Bob Shrum and Sen. Harry Reid re more likely to know about Kinsley's idea because Kinsley bypassed his own LAT op-ed page ..

.. the dirty little secret [of journalists and columists] is that the elite MSM has become addicted to (and inevitably dependent on) the blogosphere as a source of new angles and arguments.

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