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| Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| WaPo's Red Stater |
Does the WaPo really need a conservative blogger? Sign's point to "no." They've got Howard Kurtz to dish the Drudge dirt, Charles Krauthammer to bring the neocrazy, George Will to do the paleoconservative thing and Bob Woodward to oversee stenography for the White House. But the issue is that mainstream media outlets like the Post think they do. They've been beaten down so thoroughly by the right wing radio jocks and book hustlers, and they've internalized the ludicrous idea of left wing media bias so much that they can't help but flagellate themselves into tolerating the presence of anyone -- anyone -- who can make them feel "fair and balanced" --even a rabidly partisan former Bush staffer with no journalistic credentials.
Welcome to the new world order. So now Ben Domenech, our faithful Red State blogger can opine to the masses about the downtrodden nature of Christ-centered homeschoolers, intelligent design adherents and abortion opponents, educating the liberal East Coast elite about NASCAR, hot links and the subtleties of "pop" vs. "soda." It will all feel so fresh, ecumenical and "edgy" -- like when the white people who give out Oscars hand one over to the 36 Mafia because they're so "urban" and "gritty..." and meanwhile, the right and left-wing bloggers have something fresh to fight about, as the righties perfect their "we hate you and wish you were dead, not why are you so hostile towards us?" schpiel, and lefties take fresh pot shots at the House of Woodward.
Round the world:
- RedState diarist #1: Liberals should accept their media/sociopolitical defeat with equanimity...
- RedState diarist #2: Damn the equanimity, liberals are midgets...
- John Aravosis is canceling his subscription to the WaPo (dude -- why subscribe when you can read it for free online?
- The Prospect points out what should probably be obvious: (psst! Righties! Dan Froomkin: journalist... Ben Domenech: not journalist ...)
Nothing written by Dan Froomkin or Dana Milbank is as florid or self-satisfied as Domenech's writings will be. Nor can his perspective be said to balance theirs, because the blogosphere equivalent of a Domenech would be a John Aravosis, not a Froomkin or Milbank. A conservative equivalent of Froomkin would be a more of a Clive Crook or Ross Douthat type, which is to say, someone who is MSM through and through, has a conservative perspective on many issues, and is also a responsible journalist. Domenech is more of a political operative, movement activist type, who, if he's had any connection to the MSM or its standards, has left no imprint of such on Nexis. (Though the Post did profile him when he was 18 years old way back in...May 2000. Guess that makes him about 24 years old now -- at most.)
- The Wizbangers are in a mood for promotion...
- Shhh! This blogger thinks there are no other conservatives at the Washington Post...! Whatever you do ... don't ... tell ... Krauthammer...!
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