] But bloggers who want to remedy what ails the corporate
] McMedia monopoly should grab a clue from Chris Allbritton
] and haul their larval, jack-studded flesh up out of their
] Matrix-like pods and do some goddamn reporting instead of
] just getting all meta about Instapundit%u2019s post about
] The Daily Kos%u2019s post about Little Green
] Footballs%u2019s post about the vast left-wing media
] conspiracy%u2019s latest act of high treason. It%u2019s
] the Yertle the Turtle syndrome: Pundits stacked on top of
] pundits on top of pundits, all the way down, and, at the
] very bottom of the heap, the lowly hack who kicked off
] the whole frenzy of intertextuality: the reporter who
] dared venture out of the media airlock to collect some
] samples of Actual, Reported Fact.

[ This is a fantastic article which is as interesting as a compendium of neat links as it is a well thought out anaysis of the good and bad in the realm of the blogs... read it. -k]

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