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« Whacking Jimmy Soprano | Main | Pushing TABOR » December 16, 2002How Blogs Drove the Lott StoryWhat you are reading right now is a weblog or "blog." It is part of the "blogosphere," which one writer calls "the cyberworld of personal op-ed pages on the Internet." Blogs are a new form of journalism. And they are the reason the Trent Lott Affair became a national story even though Big Media mostly ignored it. Here are two stories explaining how the blogs turned Lott's idiotic comments into a national story: The Internet's First Scalp - by New York Post columnist John Podhoretz. And A Hundred-Candle Story And How To Blow It - by Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. Comments
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