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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Blogs Make the Headlines - Noah Shachtman, Wired
It's safe to assume that, before he flushed his reputation down the toilet, Trent Lott had absolutely no idea what a blog was. He may have a clue now. Internet opinion pages like Instapundit, run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, and Talking Points Memo, from leftie political columnist Josh Marshall -- were among the first to latch on to ABCNews.com's brief item on Lott's racist comments during Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday bash. And they kept focusing on Lott's hateful past -- until the national press corps finally had to take notice.
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