She said that her failure to mention or quote even one single successful woman blogger was due to her “word limit.”

As if! If she weren’t such a bloody cow, I’d say she was a wanker.

Thanks to all of you who are thinking and writing and reading and enriching our lives with your contributions to FDL.

In fact, when reading the New York Times (up until around the time Bush attacked Iraq in March 2003, I used to not even note the name of the journalist whose byline was above a front-page article.

And then I noticed how slanted and propagandist certain of these NY Times’ pre-war front-page stories were, at which time I glanced up and saw the name Judith Miller. In my view, the byline could have just as easily been of a male NY Times reporter.

Facts are facts. Truth is true. There is no gender involved where facts and truth are concerned.

Today, when I surf the internet or peruse a MSM publication, I look only for the facts and hope that truth will be revealed…which is one reason I check out Firedoglake each day.

Consistently, Firedoglake presents the facts, in service to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Thank you.

Now, this writer has what people would agree, more or less, are good credentials – Ivy League, years of experience and, from what I could tell, a deep knowledge base.

But in that editorial? Nada.

And, exactly as you write, Jane, when bloggers talk numbers, I know I feel a compulsion to provide a link (partly because when I’m the reader, I want the link too – so I can, you know – check it out for myself??).

So, I emailed this editorial board person and said, hey, those statistics, those reports. What were they? Can you send me the link? And hey, is that normal practice – to just say, “the studies say…” because, you know, I could never get away with that.

And you know what she wrote back? No room. She didn’t want to use up her word count.

I just rolled my eyes and sighed and thought, you know, if that’s what they’re going to allow themselves to say is okay? They deserve to go the way of the dinosaurs, because blogs are providing a superior product, period.

I just put my 5,000th piece of litter up in Berkeley.

Actually, that is why you are one of my heroes. Still for real.

for real.

What about Digby? You don’t love Digby?

i loved her when she was a guy.
tee hee.

I stopped reading Goodman years ago. She’s a hit n’ run sniper. Makes broad generalizations about groups of people, no nuance. I didn’t like all the snipes at childless women, but in all fairness she has a lot of targets. Thank goddess I don’t pick up many newspapers anymore and see her columns. It was always tempting to go over to her tantrum-in-writing because she’s one of the very few female columnists out there. I usually finished the article disappointed, because I couldn’t talk some sense back to her.

That article you linked to spent most of the those precious words analyzing the reason for a conclusion she didn’t really establish to anyone’s satisfaction. How to establish what constitutes a male or female political blogosphere? Isn’t Arianna the most read? Wouldn’t Firedoglake be the most linked? Digby, while she doesn’t have the high traffic, is THE liberal bloggers blogger, and she’s probably the most influential.

Shakira ROCKS!

This Skube sounds a little creepy, hanging around all these teenage girl blogs. I suggest he turn his gaze on a more mature target, like Shakira.

By the way, blog and blogger went through my spell checker.