Many bloggers embrace the view that the mainstream media tends to ignore the blogosphere. “We’re a threat to them,” the argument runs, “so those old media elites are trying to pretend we’re not here.” Maybe that was true a year ago. If I’m not mistaken, however, in the last few months there has been a consderable shift: now the MSM seems far more focused on blogs than before, perhaps more than their influence actually warrants. The latest installments: the New York Times writing about blogger Jeremy Blachman, and The Weekly Standard writing about the blog Left2Right.
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