Firedoglake\’s Well Earned Press
Applause.
Standing ovation.
Ladies and gentlemen, led by Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith and joined by Marcy Wheeler, take a well deserved bow.
As a critic who follows the fortunes of the American press, and writes about
its collapse under Bush, I found it extremely painful to sit on the sidelines
for this event. But as compensation I had the pleasure of watching Firedoglake,
a group blog, emerge as the best site for primary, tell-me-what-happened-today
coverage of the trial.The political press supplemented FDL quite well, I thought.
If I had time, I went to Memeorandum and sampled all of it. If I didn’t
have time, I read Firedoglake and the Washington Post’s team of Amy
Goldstein and Carol D. Leonnig. It wasn’t a secret. Maybe 200,000 readers
knew: If you really wanted to know what happened for a given day of the trial,
with something approaching a live transcript of events, with analytical nuance,
legal expertise, courthouse color, and recognizably human voices, Firedoglake
was your best bet.They\’re
Not in Your Club but They Are in Your League: Firedoglake at the Libby Trial
(links imbedded in original post)
And one last BRAVO! as the curtain comes down.
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