Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Broder chooses ignorance

"...I am not a reader of other blogs; I'd rather be out reporting than sitting in front of my computer."

I used to think Bush was the least curious person in Washington. Maybe Broder wants the title. David Carr offers in the New York times another explanation besides lack of curiousity for the average MSM pundit's problem with the Internet:

Journalists who have fought their way up amid the clutter in traditional media are used to having their opinions questioned, but not with the directness and ferocity that the Web encourages.

That sounds like Broder to me. When you have been wrong as consistently as he has been in the last decade, the last thing you want is feedback. He couldn't set foot into the blogosphere without sensing the disdain for his views.
posted by Dave on 11:35 AM | 0 comments link

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