Dan Sabbagh makes an interesting suggestion in a piece in The Times about political bloggers:
The big political bloggers are now receiving regular tip-offs � often from journalists unable to get the story in question into their own newspaper or bulletin.
It's notable that pretty much all of our national newspapers have a political agenda of their own. Is this the first sign of journalists starting to rebel against this? Even if it isn't, it's a whole new twist on the bloggers versus journalists debate.
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Or are the journalists using the bloggers to avoid the lawyers and editors?
Tell a blogger stuff you know you can't stand-up to the point the lawyers will be happy with, blogger posts 'cause they know they probably won't get sued, then the journalist can report that the Internet is talking all about x shagging y (or whatever).
In any case I'm disappointed with the definition of political blogging which sees Iain, Guido and Recess Monkey as the first and last words on political blogging. Forget the policy debate feel the width of my innuendo; not edifying.
Remember it was only a year or so ago that the media were prepared to have another paradigm for political blogging which included people like Norm; bloggers who talked issues not gossip.
Happy days.