At Cif, Ken Livingstone's chief of staff Simon Fletcher:
Unlike the national picture, the most influential political websites covering London government are not those of the right but those that expose the London mayoralty to scrutiny and examination.
Yes, I'm blushing. Fletcher goes on to ponder the curious rage of Mr Sock:
Why did this blogger-battering misfire? The line was that the blogs were an amateur joke. But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance. They are a target precisely because they are doing something interesting and relevant.
Among the things Gilligan misunderstands about political bloggers is that they try to subject the mainstream political media to scrutiny as well as politicians themselves - in his case, rather successfully. Now read on.
