Andrew Sullivan

For all his professed devotion to the issues, he seems to be awfully obsessed with certain scandals. He posted way too much about both the Palin pregnancy/nonpregnancy/daughter's pregnancy and the cross in the sand story McCain told during the Rick Warren forum. I think this is partially a function of the fact that Andrew posts all the freaking time, but it still seems weird coming from him.

Blogging break

I've been on one. Your regularly scheduled programming should return soon.

Doing what he should do

This post seems pretty nitpicky. What else do you expect a blogger to do? At least Matt admits he doesn't know enough about the issue and points you to someone he thinks does.

At the same time, I'm sympathetic to the claim that bloggers should do more reporting, even if it's only on background. Calling some policy experts before making a post can't hurt, can it?

And for some issues - I would say water rights could be one of them - actual foot reporting is definitely necessary. I have some more thoughts on what newspapers are good at vs. what blogs are good at, but I'm going to save them for a future post.