I think MoDo's feelings were hurt

[Rose Siding]

The between-snark premise of Sunday's column is that the blogs want to replace traditional media:

I, Old Media, came here to attend a New Media convention of progressive political bloggers aiming for a technological revolution that would dispatch mainstream media to the tumbrels. It was the journalistic equivalent of mingling with your own pod replicant in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

She then quotes a blogger who assures her that they don't want to replace traditional media:

I tracked down the cult leader.....Mr. Moulitsas assured me he didn't see himself as a journalist, only a Democratic activist. "I don't plan on doing any original reporting — screw that. I need people like you," he said, agreeing that since he still often had to pivot off the reporting of the inadequate mainstream media to form his inflammatory opinions, our relationship was, by necessity, "symbiotic."

But she didn't hear him:

Even as Old Media is cowed by New Media, New Media is trying to become, rather than upend, Old Media....

Tiara askew, she then gloats that they haven't replaced traditional media:

I'll be at the Cleopatra slot machine pondering a career in blogging, which will set me up to get back into mainstream media someday.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Only the Internet is more testosterone heavy than column writing in media.

It's amazing how few women were at that conference and how few are prominent in the political Internet world.

Even Josh Marshall, when he goes on vacation, picks someone demographically like himself to substitute.