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The NY Times Discovers the Blogosphere

A big article in the NY Times magazine covers the growth of the blogosphere over the course of this campaign. Reading the article though you'd think that the most influential bloggers are Daily Kos, Joshua Micah Marshall and wonkette.
Worse he credits Marshall for bringing down Trent Lott. I think that Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan were the ones who moved that story.
Instapundit writes:

I think it's a pretty good article. Some people are unhappy that it focuses on the lefty bloggers, but that was the intent of the piece from the get-go, and it's been underway for a while -- I had a long conversation with the reporter a few weeks back -- and it's not as if folks like me and Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus haven't had our time in the media spotlight.

The problem is that the article purports to be about the blogosphere and then concentrates only on lefties.
Still, it suggests a step up for bloggers:

This summer, sitting in the Tank and reading campaign blogs, you could sometimes get a half-giddy, half-sickening feeling that something was shifting, that the news agenda was beginning to be set by this largely unpaid, T-shirt-clad army of bloggers.

From pajamas to T-shirts!

Posted by SoccerDad at September 27, 2004 03:21 AM | TrackBack