Philly Inquirer: Why Is Air America Story Important?Michelle Malkin
posts the questions she was asked by the Inquirer
for a story they have today on blogswarms:
Its clear blogs can create enough momentum to propel a story into the mainstream -- as Atrios did with Trent Lott, as Powerline and others did with Dan Rather, for example. But those were big national stories. Is Al Franken worth going after, and if so, why?Let me just point out here that the mainstream media had no hesitation about running with the
Jeff Gannon story, which was incredibly insignificant compared to Air America. Nobody from the MSM was asking John Aravosis why he went after the representative of a tiny news organization.