Instapundit approvingly quotes a reader who writes, "One of the great things about blogs is bloggers work through the holidays, as opposed to newspapers and magazines, which recycle the year's news during the last week of the year to put together the inevitably boring "Year in Review" issue."
This is a crock. I just met a deadline for one newspaper and have another one tomorrow for a second. In both cases, editors were there to receive phone calls and copy. Plus, without newspapers, most bloggers have nothing to write about. Andrew Sullivan is vacationing, but Dan Drezner's excellent guest blogging is full of comments on fresh newspaper articles. |
