New Media, Old Media, Blog, Blog, Bog

This all started because I read Maureen Dowd's New York Times column reprinted in today's Cape Cod Times this morning.

Do the "new media" just want to become the "old media"?

What follows are three opinion columns about a big convention in Las Vegas, apparently based on a popular blog called The Daily Koz:

Maureen Dowd

Here is the June 10 Maureen Dowd Column from The New York Times. The Times charges to read it online, but a blogger called the Peeking Duck stole it and published it free.
http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/003777.php


Here is a reaction by By Shawn Macomber of the ultra-conservative Washington Spectator:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9959


And another from a middle-of-the road media critic Howard Kertz of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/06/13/BL2006061300393.html


The Daily Koz is apparently a place for Liberal Democrats to share rants:
http://www.dailykos.com/