Thus Blogged Anderson points to Jacob’s post on the subject, and says that “The indifference of the Conspiracy to the news from Abu Ghraib has been unsettling.”
I don’t think that anyone ought to be unsettled by our silence about the story — or to interpret it as indifference. I don’t see my role as posting on every subject that comes up, or even on every subject on which I have a visceral opinion. I see my role as posting on those subjects on which I have something original or at least helpful to add. Having nothing new to add here (which should be unsurprising, since this isn’t really my core field), I said nearly nothing (when InstaPundit first blogged something quite good about it, I did post something endorsing Glenn’s views).
I suspect that my cobloggers take a similar view. And it seems to be a sensible way to give our readers maximum value for the time that they invest in reading our site.
UPDATE: Josh Chafetz at OxBlog makes a similar point: “We don’t aim to be a comprehensive source of news or commentary (and God help you if you use OxBlog that way), so I don’t really feel any need to issue pro forma denunciations of things that lots of other people are doing perfectly good jobs denouncing.”
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