For those who don’t share my passion for US politics (which I try to keep out of this blog) here’s one way to think of the status quo:
“Dick Cheney is Lord Voldemort. George W. Bush is Peter Pettigrew.” Don Rumsfeld is Lucius Malfoy, while Cornelius Fudge represents administration supporters who deny that anything is wrong. ….“Daily Prophet reporter Rita Skeeter is Fox News.”
This was taken from a reader comment on a blog by New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff. So 1: the NYTimes gave the columnists’ blogs, 2: Nick is actually actively using it and 3: people are responding to it. It’s not as big as it could be as the blog (like Nick’s articles) are behind the infuriating Times Select subscription wall. I begrudgingly pay the fee to see Kristoff and Krugman among others, but the result of Times Select has been a sharp drop-off in the relevance of the excellent NYTimes columnists.
Lance Wiggs 