Over the past year, I’ve been astonished and delighted by the quality of British political blogs. What’s happened reminds me of the punk explosion when I was a teenager. People are ignoring the established system and beating it at its own game. Obvioulsy, there’s a great deal of dross, but what is heartening is how much original and intelligent journalism is coming from people entirely outside the media class, whose only chance of talking to the world would once have been confined to a few paragraphs on a letters’ page or a few minutes on a radio phone-in.
Nick Cohen Observer columnist/blogger in the new Observer blog.
I’m not so sure how much of a first the new Observer blog is, but it’s an extremely exciting development for me as a sometime reporter and a semi-addicted blogger. If anything, my one complaint is that it is so full of interesting posts (and is only going to become more and more crammed with goodies) that I don’t know how I am supposed to keep up.
How long before the others follow suit?
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