Legal Commentary

The End Of The Halperin/Drudge Era

By Big Tent Democrat

Matt Yglesias seems to be missing this important development. He writes:

Naturally, it got its Drudge link. All for a story about nothing. [Mike] Allen’s response is, I think, the most infuriating. Everyone knows that Mike Allen is an important political reporter. His morning “Playbook,” in particular, helps set the agenda for the whole next day of moronic political buzz. When he writes up a stupid story, he’s not passively predicting that people will be buzzing about it, he’s helping to make it happen. In this case, it didn’t work. Today’s cable news has, overwhelmingly, been about an actual policy question—Obama’s housing plan. And good for cable. But no thanks to Mike Allen.

(Emphasis supplied.) I wrote about this last year, but I get the impression that those still in the Beltway (Yglesias lives in DC) are slow to get it. The Media simply is less important now and getting even less important by the day. Results matter now, not Media talk.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).