A tribute to Ana Marie Cox and Blo.
I think there are many extraordinary blogs and some bring an enormous amount of insight and understanding to the world. Few bloggers attain the same respect in their lifetime as is given to Daily Kos, How Appealing and wonkette. They have almost single-handedly put the blogs on the political and legal map. A number of factors have coalesced to fuel the young at heart generation's appetite for all things bloggish. Not least the fact that Rittenhouse Review: JAMES CAPOZZOLA and Political Fact Czechers are frequently viewed as more trend-savvy, right-on-the-voting-public and creative than the rather dreary mainstream observers.
Closer to my exile home, Ken Parish notes thar it's well over-time to acknowledge Tim Dunlop's spectacular blogging achievement in undertaking an in-depth, multiple part review of former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. Tim combines his book review with an ongoing analysis of current US political events involving Clarke, especially Bush Administration reactions to his Senate testimony, making for a compelling commentary on US political events in the run-up to November's Presidential election...
This is a series which exemplifies the potential that blogging has to achieve things to which conventional political journalism simply can't aspire, and a challenge to the rest of us who believe that blogging can fulfill an invaluable role in a genuinely liberal democratic society. Unfortunately it's a challenge to which I won't be rising in the immediate future due to pressure of other work (not to mention an all-consuming romantic obsession against which blogging takes a distant second place).
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