Your Favorite Political Weblogs?
worm eater would like to know: "As the mainstream media is coming under closer scrutiny from the 'blogosphere,' and is having to actually respond to these journalists in pajamas, I thought I'd ask Slashdot: what are your favorite political blogs? Lately I've been reading Talking Points Memo, a liberal weblog by Joshua Micah Marshall, and a blog by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer. Where do you go when you want to see the mainstream media dissected and poked at?"
It's not a question of agenda versus no agenda, when 90% of newpaper journalists vote Democrat. It's a question of being upfront about one's agenda versus hiding it.
In all other occupations, conflicts of interest are routinely divulged; for some reason in mainstream journalism, they are routinely hidden. Why is this?