New Blog on the Block
The Seattle Times’ chief political reporter, David Postman, tells me that he’s going to become a blogger starting Monday.
The name of the blog: Postman on Politics. The link: TBA.
And in what I think is probably a first, at least locally, Postman will now be doing political blogging almost full time. In other words, dear blogosphere doubters, the Seattle Times has just assigned its chief political reporter to work the blogosphere every day, at least through the November elections.
My take: Good move for the Times, good move for Postman, and good luck to those of us bloggers who now have to compete with him. I covered the governor’s race trial with Postman last June in Wenatchee, and I remember the liveblogging that he did there — check out the time stamps for his posts from day one, they’re pretty intense.
POSTED 8:54 AM MondayPOSTED 9:44 AM Monday
POSTED 10:09 AM Monday
POSTED 10:54 AM Monday
POSTED 11:33 AM Monday
POSTED 11:33 AM Monday
POSTED 11:52 AM Monday
POSTED 1:34 PM Monday
POSTED 2:26 PM Monday
POSTED 2:26 PM Monday
POSTED 4:24 PM Monday
POSTED 4:52 PM Monday
POSTED 5:38 PM Monday
Granted, that was live-blogging, but still. Postman tells me his blog will be more analytical than opinionated, and that when his opinion enters into his posts, it won’t be ideological. Here, I think, lies the biggest question about the Postman on Politics experiment: Given that most successful political blogs these days are highly ideological, do web surfers really want a non-ideological blog that covers politics from an “objective” perspective?
We’re going to find out.
I like Postman's stuff and I will miss him in the Times. I don't think I will follow him to the sphere. What will it be? News articles in blog format?
Linking, commenting and a point of view is what the medium is about. If he was doing great stuff in the paper and then went into blog mode for the last week, I'd check it out. But months out? Nah.
Didn't in the early days of radio people read full newspaper artilces on air? That didn't last for good reason.
If it works, it will only be because he grows an opinion.