The LA Times included an interesting piece in today's paper about Josh Marshall and his TPM blog. It's a case of old media reporting on new media. The article begins by explaining Marshall's interesting role in the recent US attorney scandal. When TPM first started hearing murmurings of fired attorneys, Marshall utilized the technology's potential for reader feedback (comments) by asking his "100,000 or so daily readers to write in if they knew anything about U.S. attorneys being fired in their areas." He then gathered the evidence submitted by readers, and this put him at the forefront of the media investigation.

The article is worth the read for the stuff about Marshall and TPM. It goes on to talk about blogging in general, which is nothing new to us but just rehashes everything we've discussed in class.