The Problem with Bloggers

The final impetus for me deciding to create a blog was the in-fighting amongst the big Bloggers (Atrios, DailyKos, Instapundit, Little Green Footballs, etc). Even Glenn Greenwald, who early on I appreciated for staying focused on the issues, has fallen into sniping at the idiocy and disingenuity which is the right wing blogs. No single blogger, including mighty Kos, has so much power that the rest of us should be analyzing their every word.

Does it really matter that Glenn Reynolds is an idiot? Pointing it out only gives him more attention and linking to his idiotic blog just gives him more traffic to brag about. Most of the issues are minor, personal slights which I really couldn't care less about. Who cares that they are all, in Atrios' words 'whiny ass titty babies'. Would we expect anything less from people who blindly follow a leader who has sold out everything they once professed to stand for?

The energy spent in-fighting among the prime-time bloggers would be far better spent focusing on big media and the corruption in Washington. I realize that no one is surprised, but how is it Atrios and Greenwald haven't even mentioned Novak admitting that Rove is his source for the Valerie Plame article. Why is Rove off the hook? For that matter, why is Novak's not being dragged through the mud for publishing classified information which actually did compromise national security? Probably because they are too busy bitching about Deb Frisch and why the right-wing bloggers are up in arms when they regularly call for worse for public and semi-public figures. Who cares?

It is getting to the point where blogs which were once good reads about real issues are becoming in-crowd gossip columns documenting petty insults and laughing at what the other guy is wearing. Come on guys, there are much bigger fish to fry!

Update: After taking a new look at Glenn Greenwald's blog and Atrios' blog Eschaton, I think I may have an idea of what is going on here. I am not a conspiracy theorist, in fact I resist conspiracy theories with all my being, but after reading this article on MyDD, I have formulated a disturbing hypothesis. MyDD points out that right wing blogs are not as important as progressive blogs for many reasons which seem valid to me. These are, in a nutshell, less readership and redundancy as they are no different from the tactics and talking points of the actual Republicans. Given the increasing power the progressive blogs are now enjoying, is it possible the right-wing blogs are trying to dampen their effectiveness by dragging everyone down into fighting between the blogs? I would not put this past the Republican tacticians to coordinate an attack to dilute the message the blogs were effectively spreading.