Parsing Maureen Dowd
Over at Gawker, Alex Pareene channelled his old Wonkette gig with an extended discussion of Maureen Dowd‘s influence in 2008. Pareene’s thesis? The creation of TimesSelect and the subsequent MoDowd paywall killed her influence — and now she’s just one commentator among many. As Pareene puts it:
She used to be inescapable—on the Times home page, on Sunday morning politics shows, in every political blog on Earth—but now it’s hard to gin up outrage about her scrubbing negative quotes from columns or mistaking black women for other black women.
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