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Sargent To WaPo, Erickson Whines
Newshoggers.com —
... because of allegations of plagiarism. Oh Dear. As Matt Y writes: "What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job." Erickson just proved that with his fact-free rant. ...
Parallels
Political Animal —
... in size, scope, and sophistication," and will be "setting and helping to impose the national agenda for the coming years." It wasn't too terribly long ago that one of the most common concerns among progressives was the complete and total lack of an intellectual infrastructure. Now, however, there's an abundance of conservatives running around saying, "Why can't we have the kind of infrastructure the left has?" Specifically in response to the TPM observations, Matt Yglesias had a very compelling response to Goldfarb. The issue, though, isn't that the right doesn't have an ...
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skippy the bush kangaroo —
steve benen, discussing matt yglesias, discussing michael goldfarb, discussing greg sargent: the problem isn't the disappearance of conservative parallel institutions, it's that the institutions themselves simply aren't doing impressive work. the left ...
It’s 2009, But Redstate.com Is Still Stupid
Oliver Willis —
... . The story at hand - the Washington Post hiring Greg Sargent - shows again that journalists from the liberal side tend to have less trouble entering the MSM not because of their secret liberal decoder rings but because liberal publications but a higher value on these things called facts versus propaganda. ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
... story takes a tragic turn
Gristmill: Not so cheap when you have to clean up your own mess
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Israel maintains ban on Journos in Gaza...Headline seeks story...Cokie Roberts wins something...The Financial Time's giant crystal balls...Unsuccessful jihad against reporters in Santa Barbara...Harvard Square newsstand...Village Voice lays off veteran, Nat Hentoff...The Right and the news...No news is, uh, no news....Journamalism...Fox runs ...
Sargent To WaPo, Erickson Whines
Crooks and Liars —
... because of allegations of plagiarism. Oh Dear. As Matt Y writes: "What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job." Erickson just proved that with his fact-free rant. ...
Michael Goldfarb’s Deep Thoughts
Balloon Juice —
... If twisted folks like Goldfarb are an example of the next generation of conservatives, then the Republican party has more to worry about than a disparity in conservative media. ...
Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
Michelle Malkin —
... at the Weekly Standard complained on Friday that there aren’t enough conservatives engaged in “online partisan reporting” and holds up left-wing blogger Greg Sargent (formerly of TPM, now headed to the Washington Post) as a model Internet journalist for constantly bombarding the McCain camp with phone calls. Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress piled on with this smug assertion: “What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job .” Bullcrap. For various reasons, the incredible amount of investigative online reporting published on conservative blogs in just the ...
Joe the War Correspondent
Political Animal —
... that the right lacked an "equivalent outlet" to offer TPM-like reporting, and to revive the Republican Party, conservatives will need "the kind of online infrastructure the Democrats now have in place." Pajamas Media hiring Wurzelbacher to cover a war in Israel helps prove the point I was trying to make -- the right has the capacity, but can't get their act together to do real work. As Matt Yglesias put it , "The issue ... isn't that the right doesn't have an outlet equivalent to TPM or other progressive sites. There are tons and tons of conservative media outlets, most of ...
Who’s afraid of Joe the Journalist?
Michelle Malkin —
... public square. Territorial liberal journalism gurus have attempted to de-legitimize unorthodox practitioners of their trade by redefining “journalism” based on content. If a conservative writer breaks news harmful to their presidential pick or contrary to their world view, it’s a “hit piece,” not investigative reporting. If a conservative website interviews newsmakers or provides original legislative analysis, it’s “propaganda,” not explanatory or expository journalism. Thus, the myth that conservatives don’t “do journalism” persists. By their definition, we never can. Joe ...
Taking progressive new media to the next level
Political Animal —
... that the right lacked an "equivalent outlet" to offer TPM-like reporting. To revive the Republican Party, Goldfarb said, conservatives will need "the kind of online infrastructure the Democrats now have in place." Responding to this, Matt Yglesias explained , "The issue ... isn't that the right doesn't have an outlet equivalent to TPM or other progressive sites. There are tons and tons of conservative media outlets, most of them with a web presence.... What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job ." To that end, two major new media outlets have each made a ...
