Re The cover. It is attached. It was a bit of a rush job as we had one day to get it ready for the catalog (the internal sales cat.) so let me know what you think as I’m thinking we’re going to change it. But I think it’s pretty cool for the time being.

Re Taibbi- I understand. The link I sent is about an anonymous blogger who broke a big story (albeit it financial) which was picked up by the mainstream press, and then the MSM started trying to dig into who this blogger was, taking attention away from the sunlight this blogger was shining and toward silly personal stuff. Taibbi raises the issue about what constitutes a “journalist” – it’s not someone who is perfectly ‘normal’ and pleasant and nice, but someone who is incorrigibly off kilter and a little nuts with all kinds of hangups and jealousies. But it’s the part about going after bloggers that I thought was relevant to what you’re working on.

Though with that said, let’s try not to make this a ‘bloggers are people too’ book/section because oftentimes, they’re not. For every TalkingPointsMemo there are 30,000 asshats in PJ’s and another 10,000 thinking adults who do nothing but link to TPM with their two sentences added. There are probably 50 bloggers who could be considered journalists, another 2,000 who could replace the entire WaPo and NYTimes Op-Ed pages, and the rest are useless. IMHO.