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Fri 24 May 2002 11:07
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Jonah Goldberg, in a Washington Times piece today (not linked because the URL looks impermanent) in which he swerves into why InstaPundit is the most popular blog:
As a full-time conservative and part-time media critic, I am in total sympathy with the idea that Big Media is bloated, smug and less responsive than it should be. But, because human nature remains constant, we can also count on the fact that most people are lazy -- in a good way. Surfing among thousands of bloggers is harder than reading one or two newspapers.
The average consumer wants to get his news and opinions from predictable and -- just as important -- reliable outlets.
Of course, Jonah was arguing that legacy media are the beneficiaries of this tendency vis-a-vis blogs, but the principle works on any scale. And it's why I think Flyover has a chance of succeeding.
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