more digby pressure on the press. is he alwys this good? im a changed infrequent reader.
- bill 5-05-2006 6:08 pm [add a comment]

Yes, almost always.
- tom moody 5-05-2006 6:11 pm [add a comment]

Link to trackback. NG
- steve 5-05-2006 7:16 pm [add a comment]

i think it was titled lapdogs but hes doing great work in general. note to self: read digby more often.
- bill 5-05-2006 8:00 pm [add a comment]

• yes, read digby more often. but the lapdogs post was written by "tristero" who now posts on digbys page.
  - dave 5-06-2006 1:02 am [add a comment]




• right
  - bill 5-06-2006 1:03 am [add a comment]




• I dig it that you dig that digby rules. he/she's my fave blogger.
  - steve 5-06-2006 7:19 pm [add a comment]

Before Joe Klein and his colleagues enjoyed an exclusive perch, one that was maintained for them by the folks who controlled the systems that, previously, were the only ways commentary and news were disseminated. One could argue that columnists earn their perches -- through hard work, experience and, occasionally, talent. But once they attain their position, their status is more or less protected -- both by the fact that news orgs rarely fire columnists and by the kind of de facto gentleman’s agreement that has long kept columnists from attacking each other too aggressively.

The blogosphere has shattered that comfy arrangement -- permanently. All of a sudden, there’s no longer a system in place that allows columnists to grow lazy, sloppy, or biased without facing consequences. Suddenly it's possible to pinpoint a commentator’s weak reasoning or inaccuracies and broadcast them far and wide. Suddenly underperforming columnists, and their editors, are no longer insulated from competition -- from bloggers who, as hard as this may be for established commentators to accept, actually do work that’s as good or better than they do. I'd put up Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Digby, Billmon and others up against many mainstream columnists in America any day. Atrios -- who tends towards short form and makes choices partly for political punch – has as finely-tuned a sense of what stories will be big and controversial as any news editor does. And the comparison occasionally holds up with reporters, too. Murray Waas offers purely Internet-based investigations that are every bit as good as some of what you read on WashingtonPost.com, and is certainly better than much of the investigative reporting you see by the major networks.