This is a fairly brief diary, but its tenor is important. I'd like people to recommend it.
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Krugman, Olbermann, and others (including Froomkin and Dana Milbank) don't always cite the research done here and on other blogs, but they read and pay attention to what appears here. This is especially clear in Krugman's last column, which uses information that has only appeared on left-blogs, and nowhere else in the media.
Now, as much as we'd like to be cited, it's perhaps best that, for the time being, we take a stealth role. For better or worse, at the moment, there's a controversy within the media over 'blogging' as a medium. We can blame Hewitt for that. It doesn't matter.
The important thing is that guys like Krugman and Olbermann are watching and paying careful attention. We have the power to be -- in fact we ARE -- their Baker Street Irregulars. If we dig up something good, it will go into the mainstream press, and into millions of homes that would never, otherwise, visit a lefty blog.
There's been some great reporting here lately, far beyond the standards of the mainstream press. USA Next needs to be hammered into the ground, here, by us. We're the ones doing the work. Our pals in the mainstream press are watching and ready to use their influence when they can.
I'm a journalist in my civilian life, and there's a richness of resources here that I'm not sure the community even appreciates fully. USA Next is going down. We need to work for this, but if we apply ourselves as we did for Gannon, this fight is won and over.
And if we keep doing that, we'll get cited consistently, and respected.
Not so brief after all. Thanks. And I'd like you to recommend this.