The blogosphere is the loudest corner of the Internet, noisy with disputation, manifesto-like postings and an unbecoming hatred of enemies real and imagined.
The last phrase would lead a person familiar with wingnuttia to expect Skube to mention freakshows like Little Green Footballs or NewsBusters. Of course, those are untouchable, Skube mentioned only liberal/left bloggers: Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Joshua Micah Marshall, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Daily Kos, and the contributors to the Huffington Post. Skube goes on to write:
One gets the uneasy sense that the blogosphere is a potpourri of opinion and little more. The opinions are occasionally informed, often tiresomely cranky and never in doubt. Skepticism, restraint, a willingness to suspect judgment and to put oneself in the background -- these would not seem to be a blogger's trademarks.
And it is natural to make the assumption he's referring to the blogs and bloggers he mentiioned earlier. This is clearly unfair to them and I wonder if Skube is even halfway familiar with these blogs. I've read Marshall, Yglesias, the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post for several years and I can aver that they are informative and reasonable.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo lets us know about an e-mail exhange he had with Skube and we learn that Skube did not put Marshall in his op-ed:
"I didn't put your name into the piece and haven't spent any time on your site. So to that extent I'm happy to give you benefit of the doubt ..."
"I said I did not refer to you in the original. Your name was inserted late by an editor who perhaps thought I needed to cite more examples ... "
So, after going after the bloggers in part because they don't have enough facts, Skube lets something appear under his name of which he personally is completely ignorant. BTW, Skube is a professor of journalism!
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