Adriana Blog Brings LAT Admission

Buried deep in the LATimes story about Adriana Huffington's proposed new blog, huffingtonpost, is this admission that got through the LAT's editors:

Blogs have been credited as a leveler of American journalism — offering a public forum to anyone with a computer and an opinion.

Not that we see a lot more level-headed journalism on our breakfast tables and TVs since blogs emerged, but any journalist who's been slammed by a blog or two is going to approach reporting differently.

As for huffingtonpost, it's an interesting concept, a "salon blog" that will give 300 of Adriana's closest celeb friends the opportunity to post, and we little people the opportunity to comment. It's left skewed, with Michael Medved and the WSJ's John Fund positioned against Libs Adriana, Walter Cronkite, David Geffen, former Sen. Gary Hart, writer David Mamet, the Urban League's Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Norman Mailer, Playboy's Christie Hefner, and actors Harry Shearer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What they produce in volume and emotion Medved and Fund should be able to counter with reason and logic -- maybe it's not all that skewed after all!