Starblogger

Tom Webb is the Washington correspondent for the Pioneer Press.

He has - no, strike that. The Pioneer Press has jumped on the blog bandwagon by shoehorning this old-school reporter into a pseudo-blog on the PiPress' online edition. The Fraters' Saint Paul commented about the local institutional blog phenomenon yesterday.

Here's what Webb had to say yesterday:

It wouldn't be a convention without free-range celebrity sightings -- that is, spotting VIPs outside of their usual habitats...

...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Huh? Oh, crap. Sorry. He talked about Garrison Keillor and Patty Wetterling and B-Af...what is it with the left and stars? Half of Air America, I swear, is fully involved in paying obeisance to Hollywood. "Washington Reporter" Webb carries on like a star-struck Rona Barret.

:Just a minute, Berg - Webb is not "the left". He's a journalist".

Really? Let's check out who his "blog" links to:

• BostonDParty - the Democrat convention's house blog
• Daily Kos - amoral Democrat moonbat
• Instapundit - the one "conservative" blog that everyone has to link. Unless they link Andrew Sullivan.
• Blogging of a President - Left-leaning blog seemingly led by Boston NPR host and former MPR fill-in Christopher Lydon, a blog that accomplishes the difficult task of reading like "Mid-Morning" sounds.
• Centerfield - "Centrist", meaning moderate-left-leaning blog by a consortium of bloggers, including longtime "SiTD" friend Rick Heller
• Scripting News - non-aligned linkblog.
• Musselman for America - billed as the blog of the youngest delegate in the Texas delegation - to the Democrat convention, natch.
• TopDog04 - A really, really dumb lefty blog that I've never heard from before, and never will again.
• Wonkette - Really, really dull left-leaningDC gossip-blog.

That's it! Those are the "blogs" the PiPress deigns to recognize.

In a blogosphere dominated by great conservative blogs - to say nothing of (my own, admittedly-self-serving obligation to mention) the Northern Alliance, a group of conservative bloggers of fairly immense influence (well, Lileks and Powerline and Ed, anyway) in Webb's paper's own backyard, that group of odds and sods and hacks is the best Tom Webb can come up with?

Note to the Pioneer Press; if you want to "get" blogs, you need to get in touch with the Northern Alliance. Ed, Trunk, Rocketman and the Fraters deliver more good stuff in a week than every "blogger" in your paper will in a year, and hold down day jobs to boot.

Just pathetic.

Posted by Mitch at July 28, 2004 03:52 AM | TrackBack