{"id":3028,"date":"2005-01-19T14:33:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/having-it-both-ways\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T14:33:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T21:33:52","slug":"having-it-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/having-it-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Kos wants it both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRe: the Kos flap, Chris Suellentrop points out that bloggers like Kos inhabit a bit of a netherland<\/a> between journalism and activism:<\/p>\n

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Moulitsas is a different case. He’s never pretended to be a journalist – this past October, he told National Journal, “I am part of the media. But a journalist? No. If I had put a label on it, I would say I am an activist.” – but in the year since he stopped cashing Dean’s checks, he’s gained a reputation as “the liberal Instapundit” and the most popular left-wing blogger. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suellentrop doesn’t quite appreciate how ambiguous Kos’ position really is. He started a bi-partisan blog in 2003 called Political State Report<\/a> to cover politics at the state level leading up to the 2004 election. One of the purposes of this blog (to which I contributed for a while; see this entry commenting on one of my articles<\/a>) was to obtain press credentials to cover political events such as the conventions. When this was announced, I quit and asked for my postings to be removed because it was obvious that the press role was in conflict with the activist role. I was an activist, and had been for a while, and didn’t want to try and pass myself off as anything else.<\/p>\n

So Kos has pretty consistently leveraged his activism with consulting and journalism of a sort, no matter what he’s saying now. So regardless of how you feel about Zephyr Teachout and Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is a study in conflicts of interest and limited credibility.<\/p>\n

Via Jarvis.<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Temple Stark, current editor of Political State Report, is insistent that I mention Kos is no longer associated with Polstate, other than providing hosting for it. He doesn’t want this efforts damaged by association with Kos, and I can appreciate that.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re: the Kos flap, Chris Suellentrop points out that bloggers like Kos inhabit a bit of a netherland between journalism and activism: Moulitsas is a different case. He’s never pretended to be a journalist – this past October, he told National Journal, “I am part of the media. But a journalist? No. If I had … Continue reading “Kos wants it both ways”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-MQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}