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The Washington Monthly

Nice to see others validating what I've been saying ...

In popular legend, one of the blogosphere's greatest strengths is its ability to expose media bias and malfeasance and hold the press accountable. For a long time I've disagreed: God knows the press deserves its share of criticism, the same as any other large institution, but with few exceptions blogosphere criticism tends to be both ignorant and juvenile.

Instapundit, for example, has written a seemingly endless stream of contemptuous posts about the media over the past year, but when I click the links and read the stories in question, there's usually nothing there except trivia: a tendentious reading of one word in a headline, unhappiness that a favored group wasn't quoted, etc. There's just no there there.

Yeah, pretty much exactly what I've been saying. I guess the pickings are really getting even slimmer than I suspected for the "liberal media" carpers as of late.