Davos Newbies

I love the idea the Financial Times had of surveying its correspondents to find out the most influential commentators in a number of countries globally. But I have to question their judgement when FT editor Lionel Barber picks washed-out right-wing loony Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post as America’s most influential commentator. Please save us.

Josh Marshall: “One of the most neglected aspects of the blogosphere, in my opinion, is that precisely because it’s (mostly) composed of people who aren’t professional journalists, it’s composed of people who are professional doers of something else and know a great deal about what it is they ‘really’ do. Consequently, the overall network of blogs contains a great deal of embedded knowledge.”