Life imitates blogs

Are political blogs relevant? It's a question I intend to explore in a series of posts - and we already have some empirical data. Staff writer Joshua Glenn of the Boston Globe noticed our Heathers fracas a few weeks ago:

WHEN A REGULAR at Dean Nation, the oldest and most popular Howard Dean weblog, complained recently about Dean-bashing by liberal pundits Joshua Micah Marshall, Matthew Yglesias, and George Stephanopoulos, among others, he caused the digital equivalent of a firestorm by concluding, "All you Heathers, get out of town." Yglesias, writing on his own blog, claimed to welcome the moniker. But many Democrats online claim that the "Deaniacs" have gone too far this time.


As Matt points out today, he didn't exactly "welcome" the moniker - and points to his absolutely first-rate work in lambasting the real media Heathers over at Tapped every week.

Still, it's intriguing to think that the affair reached the notice of the Globe. Keep an eye out for Joshua Glenn, he's clearly got an eye on the blogsphere, which can only be a good thing. Any journalist can effortlessly get on my good side by praising Dean Nation, of course, so perhaps I'm a tad biased.

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