Politico: Another Daily Kos'rs Take

What’s risky in this? To me it seems like he’s betting that the medium trumps the message. By hiring veteran Washington political reporters like Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris to lead the site, Albritton is betting that the beltway sources will follow, that his site will be able to compete with the national desks of the WaPo and NYT.

But does the target audience–you–care whether you get the same Washington, D.C. perspective repeated in a new venue or on the national pages of a newspaper? Seems to me the reason the blogs have proliferated so is because we bring a different perspective than what D.C.