The FireDogLake team is getting pretty good at this live reporting thing. Take a look, for example, of today’s summary of the Libby trial by Jane Hamsher & "Swopa"
on Politics.tv, better than anything you might hope to find on CNN.
I've become hooked. The FDL coverage has created an incredible online community that is fun to watch. The success of the FDL team has at least three components:
1. Live blogging of the trial,
2. insightful commentaries by the bloggers, and
3. free-for-all comments by FDL "pups" and bloodhounds.
There's a lot of fluff in the comments (the "pups"), but also some good bloodhound work. Consider, for example, this comment by "cinnamonape" on Christy Hardin Smith’s blog today under the title, The Trouble With Mary.
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