In New-Media World, Everyone Is Sounding Like a Beltway Insider

IN NEW-MEDIA WORLD, EVERYONE IS SOUNDING LIKE A BELTWAY INSIDER
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Lee Gomes]
This election year, anyone can be a campaign expert. As it does with so much else, the Web is democratizing the knowledge that in an earlier era had been possessed by a small group of political professionals. Riding around in a rowdy bus; knocking back bourbon in smoke-filled rooms. All that is so 1972. This year, anyone with the right browser bookmarks can be a political insider. While all good reporters have their own sources, they also share the same daily reading list. Most start with the big national papers, though you can skip those and head right for a site like "the Note" at ABCNews.com and "First Read," via MSNBC. NationalJournal.com is an obligatory stop by news junkies, and newsflashes are available at CNN's Political Ticker. RealClearPolitics.com shows a list of what its editors consider to be the leading stories. You can also link there to the latest polls, or flip to similar information at pollster.com. Another aggregator of political news, memeorandum.com, uses a Google-style algorithm to determine the big political story of the hour.
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