It’s been really fascinating over the past week or so to see Senator Lott’s comments create such a stir (and rightly so, I’d say) — primarily because it’s entirely possible that his comment just may have gotten swept under the rug had the ‘blogosphere’ not started voicing their outrage.
John Podhoretz of the New York Post recognized the work that various bloggers did in keeping the story alive in his column last Friday. This, then, has led to an interesting debate on just how much credit really can go to the blogging world — during which a link was posted to a Washington Post column by Howard Kurtz that also credits the blogosphere with keeping the story alive.
Neat to be able to watch a bunch of independent writers across the ‘net catch the ‘big boys’ of media napping.