To sully
Maybe I was wrong. When Andrew Sullivan signed onto Time Magazine to become a house blogger, I regretted that he didn’t stay independent on his own blog and that Time didn’t find a clever way to enable that. But since he started getting regular pay, he has been blogging up a storm and I’m glad to see it. Funny how money motivates. So as much as I want to see the distributed world made real, until we reach that shining day on the hill, maybe hiring bloggers isn’t such a bad idea.
Here’s a hilarious post from Sullivan today: Virgin is now a dirty word.
: LATER: Just got email from Mark Tapscott saying that the Examiner in D.C., where he is editorial page editor, just signed up a gaggle of bloggers to become regular op-ed page contributors: Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters, Jeralyn Merrit of TalkLeft.com, LaShawn Barber of LaShawn Barber’s Corner, Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page and Mary Katharine Ham of Salem/Hugh Hewitt.
Tags: Weblogs
May 31st, 2006 at 2:19 pm
When bloggers have nothing to say the don’t post (one hopes). When paid pundits have nothing to say, the still need to meet their deadlines. The result can be seen frequently on the Times Op-Ed page.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:43 pm
examiner.com isn’t a newspaper — it’s just a repurposed AP feed with a slant. It’s not exactly news when a right-wing news feed signs up right-wing columnsts.