What blogs are you reading these days?

[TayTay]

Have you changed what you read since the election?

I am still reading Talking Points Memo, but spend less time on Daily Kos and Huffington Post. (I was never a huge HuffPo reader. They have too much celebrity news for my tastes.)

I have picked up Small Wars Journal ( http://smallwarsjournal.com/ ) and Foreign Policy ( http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/ )and am reading more business news.

How about you? After DU JK, what site are you reading?

[beachmom]

1. I am reading less blogs, and more pure news.

Instead of aimlessly tooling around the internet, I have signed up for e-mails from various sites:

CNN morning news e-mail (feels like the old CNN -- just the news, none of the punditry)

http://www.cnn.com/

Atlanta Journal Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/


The Economist (their American political news is lacking, but they have good coverage of world events especially the global financial crisis)

http://www.economist.com/

Der Spiegel International

http://www.spiegel.de/international/

Salon, TPM, and TNR all have newsletter e-mails, too. Worth browsing through. I realize TNR has a bad past, but I still enjoy reading some of their articles.

http://www.salon.com/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.tnr.com/

As for blogs, I still read:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

And here, of course. (To be clear this GROUP not the other forums on DU). But certainly less fluff, which is what I consider DKos and Huff Puff to be. The times are too serious to read rants from the liberal blogger base. I want to read articles by paid professionals, honestly, many of whom are either experts or have access to experts. And reporters who get out there to find out what is going on. I am actually quite worried about newspapers disappearing -- we need original reporting and investigative reporting that is not partisan, but aims for objectivity.

[Mass]

2. Mine.

I ready daily talkingpointsmemo.com and politicalwire.com, as well as the field, and washingtonmonthly.com.

I also read ChimesatMidnight, upperleft.blogspot.com, and robreich.blogspot.com, as well as more infrequently the Atlantic blogs, starting by James Fallows and Ta-Nehisi Coates's blogs.

I am a big fan of Hullabaloo (digbysblog.blogspot.com), and http://www.ourfuture.org/blog.

I still have in my bookmarklist democracycellproject.com though I read it less often than I used to, and do only read dailykos and Huffingtonpost where they are linked in another post I read.

Another blog I read that is not a political blog is Ryn Tales, a blog of a woman who is blogging about her daughter, a very early premature kid who has cerebral palsy and the progress she is making. (ryntales.blogspot.com).

[beachmom]

4. Coates is great, btw. Check out this post from today:

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/some_hood_analysis.php

He's talking about how self deluded conservatives are, that their views are the mainstream right after 2 electoral defeats. And this point is relevant to this forum:

It's not that I think liberals are without flaw, but to argue that our most strident members should be our public face, would seem silly. As Ross intimates, if most liberals thought it was good idea for Howard Zinn Randall Robinson, or Noam Chomsky to be a spokesperson for the Democratic Party, I'd think we'd all gone insane. If Democratic politicians were scared to disagree with Keith Olberman or Michael Moore, I'd be a man without a home.

Remember when F9/11 came out and John Kerry said he hadn't even seen the film? Now Michael Moore is kind of a lefty Rush Limbaugh, except for two things: he is fairly independent of the Democratic party and the Democratic party would never, ever, ever worship him. Kerry tried to act like the dude was irrelevant that summer, which at that time in 2004 was pretty smart, given the fact that there were major flaws in that film. Coates beautifully ends his post like this:

But these guys think that they are America. They delude themselves with that "center-right nation" analysis, and then mask their losses by claiming they didn't really lose. They think the problem is their wardrobe, their slang, their hairstyle. This is what black folks call Project-Bougie or--more aptly put--just plain trifling. The GOP is out shopping for a new dining set, a new couch, a flat-screen--anything to make the crib look a little more inviting. Meanwhile the water bill is two months past due. The lights are off. And the eviction notice is in the mail.

[MBS]

3. TPM and Daily Dish

plus checking in here.
Mostly, I read hard copy. I'm OD'ed on cable shows, hardly ever watch anymore.