I was rather surprised at the low number of hits this thread took and the lack of comments. I thought this would be something that would be jumped on..
I too was surprised at how little interest the previous thread attracted. I guess there were more important things on people's minds, such as George Clooney...
Lately I have noticed an avoidance of "serious" threads at FR. Hope this doesn't become a trend.
I'm disappointed too, but not surprised. The "blogosphere" is just a different echo chamber than what "journalists" have at their own internal water coolers, IMO.
FR is really a clipping service, not a threat to the NYT.
All we seem to have been doing is enabling their other leftist competitors by forwarding mostly Associated Press and Reuters articles around.
Where's the Saddam tapes stories? Where's Jayna Davis on OKC/Iraq? Where's "citizen journalist" pork bill investigations in local districts, posted on FR?
Nevertheless, FR is a really good clipping service....