Gene Lyons defogs the blogs

[mooseandsquirrel]

Atrios gets the thumbs up from Gene. Go Duncan.

Because his site links to everybody of interest, reading Atrios for a week would be the single best way I know to get oriented with Democratic-accented weblogs. Now that Atrios has unmasked himself as Duncan Black, a Philadelphia economist with a Ph.D. from Brown University, the absurd rumor that your humble, obedient servant here was responsible for this invaluable site can be put to rest.


http://moose-and-squirrel.com/GeneLyons/GeneLyons.html

m&s

[Rey Pygsterio]

1. Lyons is one of the best in the business

Here's one of my favorite excerpts from this week's column:

"They spend a lot of time talking about how we don’t have ‘editors‚’ or ‘factcheckers‚’ and how you just can’t trust that stuff you read in the Internet," he noted. Then he pasted in CNN transcripts of Judy Woodruff citing unconfirmed nonsense from "The Drudge Report" about John Kerry’s expensive haircuts and Wolf Blitzer alluding to unspecified "weird aspects" of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke’s private life.

Chastised, Blitzer blamed Bush administration officials who later backed off, seemingly realizing that smearing Clarke would do more harm than good. Nevertheless, Atrios made his point: Being scolded about journalistic ethics by cable TV celebrities is like being faulted for bad taste by Paris Hilton.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. I am closing my eyes and wishing that MWO comes back

in time to comment on the follies of the media whores during the general election campaign.