Michelle malkin was she first a columnist? she is a frequent TV presence and now with hot air, showing frequent utubes.

The main advantage magazines have over blogs, it seems to me, is institutional gravitas. Television and radio bookers, publishing houses, opinion columnists, mainstream journalists, and other influence leaders are far, far more likely to turn to someone with the imprimatur of an institution that to a self-published blogger.

you guys are better, it's impossible to ask for clarification, or to express your perturbed inductiveness
to such outdated one sided current event communication distribution devices.

I like talking back, this form of media gives me this ability, well sorta I'm much better a talking back, then typing back.

Instapundit is a blog (it supports permalinks). DrudgeReport isn't (it doesn't).

Other than not archiving, that makes him little different than Reynolds, unless you count "Heh. Indeed." as insightful analysis.

We'll have to disagree on the prominence the others would have without their blogs.

I don't know what else you'd call Drudge (other than a person who is far more influential than anyone in such a goofy hat should be).

Drudge is a webmaster who posts the occasional good rumor. He does essentially no analysis and doesn't even archive his old posts. It's not a blog in any traditional sense.

As for Volokh and Drezner, I don't see the line between them and Reynolds, who you cited. Without their blogs, they'd all be obscure professors who get called on for quotes about once a year.

UCLA and Chicago/Tufts are big time schools in major media markets, whereas UT-Knoxville isn't. Their profiles are raised by their blogs, to be sure, but the fact that they've got bonafide credentials behind them make it hard to dismiss them as "just" bloggers.

I don't know what else you'd call Drudge (other than a person who is far more influential than anyone in such a goofy hat should be).

As for Volokh and Drezner, I don't see the line between them and Reynolds, who you cited. Without their blogs, they'd all be obscure professors who get called on for quotes about once a year.

Sullivan, on the other hand, had been editor of The New Republic long before he blogged.

Matt Drudge, surely. Eugene Volokh and Dan Drezner, maybe.

I don't consider Drudge a blogger, in that he has never actually run a blog.

Volokh and Drezner have certainly raised their profile with their blogs -- as has Sullivan, of course -- but they have prestigious institutional platforms to bolster them. Volokh and Drezner are professors at prestige schools who happen to blog.

Matt Drudge, surely. Eugene Volokh and Dan Drezner, maybe.

institutional gravitas

You mean as an alternative to actual, expressed gravitas? It isn't just bloggers that have run the print media into the ground it's the print media themselves. Increasingly, the political magazines have emulated the worst qualities of blogs when they might have exploited their strenghts, which include the time and resources to do actual research and investigation.

Why pay for unsupported, poorly expressed, openly biased opinions from a political magazine when you can get that free from a blogger?