Wired News: Blogs Make the Headlines
Posted 27/12/2002 under
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It’s safe to assume that, before he flushed his reputation down the toilet, Trent Lott had absolutely no idea what a blog was.
He may have a clue now. Internet opinion pages like Instapundit, run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, and Talking Points Memo, from leftie political columnist Josh Marshall—were among the first to latch on to ABCNews.com’s brief item on Lott’s racist comments during Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday bash.
And they kept focusing on Lott’s hateful past—until the national press corps finally had to take notice.
