Comments on: This Blogging Life

By: Limbaugh, Failure, and Media Distortion

Limbaugh, Failure, and Media Distortion — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:55:53 +0000

[...] Bithead alerts me to a cross-blog debate that I somehow missed between Patrick Frey and Jeff Goldstein over [...]

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:51:27 +0000

James; (nod) Of course, there's also Reynolds and Drudge, neither of which get too deeply into their links and yet have higher hitrates than any mortals. Makes one wonder if the driver there isn't the same. Of course, ... there's always a look at the result.. folks who spent all of the 2004 campaign mouthing the word nuance while having none.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Well, how does this work with the cries about lack of detailed analysis and reporting from the Dinosaur Media, then?

"Damn, this reporter has no clue what he's talking about" is certainly a takeaway. There's plenty of detailed analysis out there from both MSM and the blogosphere. The lengthier pieces, though, are harder to blog and therefore get less blogging. And PDFs are worse than long HTML articles. Books are worst of all!

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:42:56 +0000

I like articles that have a clear takeaway which I can excerpt and comment on. If there isn’t one, I sometimes put the piece aside and then never get back to it. Bad blogger.

Well, how does this work with the cries about lack of detailed analysis and reporting from the Dinosaur Media, then?

By: sam

sam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:40:09 +0000

Yeah, I think Kevin's being too hard on himself. When I read his blog and yours, I'm really impressed re the number of diverse topics you guys can address from your perspectives. To address all of the stuff out there, it'd take a Nicolas Bourbaki of blogdom to do it right--and then the blog would probably be so big as to be unreadable. Not big like the map the guy decided to make on a one foot to one foot scale, but damn close.