Dennis Hollingsworth

Reading Material

Today's the second year of InstaPundit's reign as the blogger supreme in the internet. An excerpt from a recent letter to a dear friend:

"I stopped reading the LATimes months before we left LA (as you might guess, I don't trust the reporting there anymore, plus, they're NYTimes wannabe's)... and since coming to Dallas, I check out the NYTimes after my landlady is through with it. After the Howell Raines/ Jason Blair debacle, I don't trust the NYTimes either. Sure, there are exceptions of reportage in both papers... but I have to be convinced they they've cleaned house and have seen the light before I do.

I think the paradigm has shifted for the news, as it has for a whole host of things: careers, family, modern life. For me, it started with websites like refdesk.com that are windows for many newspapers all over the world. The paradigm I'm talking about is the single news authority, now I like to interpolate several news sources. Then, the blogs supercharged this very activity, they're amazing.

The one thing a newspaper can do is expose you to the unexpected article, since movement within the web is more like a tunneling than a harvesting. So, I subscribe to the Economist Magazine for a worldwide sitrep, it's kinda like Time or Newsweek on steroids. "

I might have spun my take on the LA/NYTimes a bit hard there... but the general sketch holds true for me. The blogs opened up a whole world, where we all can check the sources. The major news media can no longer control the frame, a major leap in our information age.

Many bloggers are singing hossannas for Glen Reynolds aka InstaPundit. Here's one good one:

http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_08.html#004392

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Books I'm reserving at the Dallas Central Library:

"Princess Monoke" (Video and book)
Stephen deBeste is a mad engineer who has a blog, and of his many interests, is Japanese anime.

"Director's Cut: A Moses Wine Novel" by Roger L. Simon
I heard his interview on Hugh Hewitt's Radio show, and I've just bookmarked his blog.