It would be really sexy and dramatic to claim that a few brave blogger souls set out to build an alternative media structure, but that's not really true. We set out to write for ourselves, to provide an outlet for the angst we felt in a politically hostile environment - where criticising the president on domestic policy was somehow unpatriotic. And we weren't alone: there was a huge audience out there hungry for this content. And suddenly, the seeds of a liberal media blossomed online.
That's an extract from a column for Guardian Unlimited by leftwing blogger Markos Moulitsas, aka Daily Kos. It's the first in a series of weekly columns by Moulitsas: his opposite number on the blogging A list, Republican Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, will also be contributing a weekly comment piece in the build-up to the US elections.
Reynolds' column will appear later this week, and if the quote above has whetted your appetite, Moulitsas's column is here.
