Via Instapundit, found an interesting site, New Geography. It’s sort of about economics and urban planning, but it’s not as dry as that sounds. Check it out.
RepublicanDaily.info seems to be a fairly straight-up site that aggregates news within the Republican political sphere. Definitely worth a click if that interests you.
Tucker Carlson’s online mag The Daily Caller has just put itself on the American journalistic map with its serialization of the JournoList scandal. This kind of news will put the popularity of the site on afterburners, just the way the Monical Lewinsky scandal made Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report a household name. It’s also catalyzing a long-needed [...]
After seeing if I could drum up interest yesterday in buying the infamous JournoList archives for the benefit of my second favorite blogger, Andrew Breitbart takes up the challenge and offers $100,000 for them. Awesome, Andrew! I’m very happy about this development. Go get ‘em!
Good take on the Weigel Affair from The Economist; including a little preening in the last paragraph.
Dave Weigel posts an honest and painfully self-critical mea culpa on Breitbart’s Big Journalism site. I’m sure he will find other work in journalism eventually. UPDATE: One futher thought: As I’ve said in other places, I think Ezra Klein’s Journolist was set up as a mechanism to enable public policy advocates of a particular politcial [...]
Now that Dave Weigel has moved on to better things, the spotlight has turned to Ezra Klein’s Journolist listserv. By some accounts, as many as four hundred were registered on this listserv. What do you think the chances are that there are NO complete archives of the messages that were reflected by this listserv? I [...]
Regarding the Dave Weigel scandal at the Washington Post: What I find stunning is that nobody, but nobody, thinks there’s an ethical problem with reporters participating in a secret politically-oriented forum with their sources. They never bothered to think it through. On the one side, we have news reporters, whose independence from government influence is [...]