An Ankle-Biting-Pundit expresses concern about the lack of "conservative New Media news sites":
Jonathan Martin has a story out today regarding the Republicans' "dearth of new-media reporting." It's worth reading and puts into circulation a dynamic many of us have quietly expressed our concern about for a long time now: Conservative bloggers write top-notch opinion but liberal bloggers break news....
Of course, Jonathan is correct at the 30,000 foot level: Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo have evolved into news sites, whereas conservative blogs have largely remained commentary sites that occasionally report news when they have it.
And what is to blame for this terrible, terrible problem?
Leftwing media bias.
Ah, but of course. And how can we confirm this hypothesis?
A May MarketWire study confirms this. According to their press release, "The study surveyed journalists from five different beats – politics, lifestyle, technology, healthcare and travel. In addition to gauging their online activity and its impact on reporting, the study also asked journalists to evaluate some of the most popular blogs and social media news sites in their respective field."
And wouldn’t you know it, the most popular blogs and social media news sites among political reporters are … Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo, along with Real Clear Politics and Daily Kos[!].
"[!]" indeed.
Truly, only "leftwing media bias" can explain why political journalists don't spend more of their time reading all the "conservative New Media news blogs" that we've just been told don't actually exist. That's some bias, that leftwing media bias! Is there anything it can't so? (It probably can't explain precisely why Matt Drudge rules anyone's world, but then again, what can?)
But I actually support the idea of political journalists spending more time reading stuff like Ankle Biting Pundits. If I ruled anyone's world I'd even make it mandatory. It would certainly be an eye-opening experience for them, and after the job they've done as a profession over the last eight years, they certainly deserve it.
Thers,
Does this not smack of jealousy?
"Hey! What's Kos got that I ain't got?"
Well, a sane mind, collective tho it may be.
And besides, maybe there aren't that many conservative news-blog/sites because ohhhhhh
THE FUCKING MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS THE FUCKING RIGHT WING NEWS!
Just a thought.
Posted by: actor212 | July 24, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Actor, hee hee.
I also like the idea that "conservative bloggers write top-notch opinion." No, they're just nuts
Posted by: Thers | July 24, 2008 at 03:49 PM
Shorter: The dearth of rightwing news sites conclusively proves the lack of rightwing news sites.
Posted by: Me | July 24, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Actually think it may be due to the democratic nature of the media. We get to choose what we read and which sites we visit and despite 20 years of unrelenting right wing bias displayed in traditional media, we are still a liberal nation.
Posted by: Shared Humanity | July 24, 2008 at 06:11 PM
When I want to know about breaking news, I turn to Atlas Juggs.
Posted by: trifecta | July 24, 2008 at 06:12 PM
Maybe they can console themselves with that horrible Doonsbury cartoon where Megaphone Mark taunts a Kos look-alike about eating cat food. What the hell was Garry Trudeau thinking?
Posted by: Bitter Scribe | July 24, 2008 at 08:09 PM
Three minutes at Redstate would forever cure them of ever crediting conservatives with good intentions (or even marginal intelligence). A 30 second visit to MalKKKin or Atlas Jugs would probably inspire them to suicide. Truth is that the conservative blogosphere is screaming batshit crazy and dumber than a box of rocks, which probably explains why the MSM avoid reading it.
Posted by: DrDick | July 24, 2008 at 08:15 PM
I'm still waiting for those fiendishly clever conservative bloggers to cover "dude, where's my tax cut"
no, seriously... yes I'm talking to you ratfuck, shithead neonazi cons
Where the FUCK is that fucking taxcut you've been shitting us for the past 8yrs?
Posted by: dan | July 24, 2008 at 08:36 PM
...conservative blogs have largely remained commentary sites that occasionally report news when they have it.
No disrespect to AnkleBiting, but Conservative sites have existed not to promote cogent analysis or discussion of issues, but to megaphone the most recently emailed talking points that The Organized Right can get the technological portion of Wingnuttia to echo for them.
There isn't a single conservative blog that isn't profoundly full of lies; that isn't based on an utterly delusional perspective of the world and domestic issues. Surfing them is like reading sites claiming Communism as practiced in the Soviet Union was a resounding success.
This may be why HuggableBuddyBearGuy doesn't "do" the Intertubes, but probably not.
Posted by: Jemand von Niemand | July 24, 2008 at 08:50 PM
Well, once you've read one righty blog you've pretty much read them all. The only difference is the level of stupid they are willing to sink to.
Posted by: mikefromtexas | July 25, 2008 at 02:08 AM
Maybe they can console themselves with that horrible Doonsbury cartoon where Megaphone Mark taunts a Kos look-alike about eating cat food. What the hell was Garry Trudeau thinking?
Megaphone Mark is a conservative.
Posted by: actor212 | July 25, 2008 at 09:23 AM
I going to say what actor212 already did.
The rightwing has ABC News fercrisesakes.
But he already said it.
Posted by: Danny Guam | July 25, 2008 at 05:12 PM
...Truth is that the conservative blogosphere is screaming batshit crazy and dumber than a box of rocks, which probably explains why the MSM avoid reading it.
DrDick
There's nailing it, and then there's nailing it.
Posted by: Jemand von Niemand | July 25, 2008 at 05:31 PM
jonathan martin has a story out today regarding the republicans' "dearth of new-media reporting."
hey, he misspelled "death."
Posted by: skippy | July 25, 2008 at 09:55 PM
No; he has a lisp. Don't mention it or anything; Jonathan's pretty sensitive about it.
Posted by: Jemand von Niemand | July 26, 2008 at 08:01 PM
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=15898
Ahh .... the fine smell of leaked names in the morning!
Take a gander of the heavy hitters in the US Military, NSA and Federal employees' compassion for other people's money (tax payer funded) salaries resulting from their "fake expert" diplomas!
Let's hope Novak's tumor and karma is treated by one of the many "fake doctors" on the list.
Posted by: BegoniaBuzzkill | July 30, 2008 at 01:44 PM
I doubt you'll be surprised to know that Howard Kurtz actually quotes from Ankle-Biting-Pundit fairly regularly - but then, his column is pretty much the conservative blog roundup.
Posted by: Batocchio | July 30, 2008 at 01:53 PM