Howard Mortman - an ex-producer at the Hardball show and former editor/columnist at National Journal's The Hotline - invited me the other day to bloviate at length about the future of political blogs (my guesses are as good as anybody's!), and to choose some of my favorites.
Now I have done so. If you're interested, the discussion has been posted here today, at Howard's entertaining website, which is also a good tip sheet for political junkies, with lots of good links. You can also click on "Blogs the Famous Media Reads," to see the favorites cited by political journalists who are far more famous than I.
About Me
- Dick Polman
- Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. This online column is cited by The Washington Post as one of the top five mainstream political blogs in the country, and is touted by former "Hardball" TV producer Howard Mortman as "the immediately must-read political blog." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns. In his 22 years at the Inquirer, he has also been a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment writer in the feature section; and a longtime Sunday magazine contributor. In the early '80s, he wrote three metro columns a week for the Hartford Courant. A graduate of George Washington University, today Dick is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence."