Thanks to Power Line for Making Patterico Its “Blog of the Week”
Many thanks to the guys at Power Line for making my blog the Power Line “Blog of the Week,” and welcome to Power Line readers. Like most people who follow the conservative blogosphere, I have read Power Line for as long as I can remember, and I very much admire the three gentlemen who run that fine blog. So it is a distinct honor for this humble site to be selected as one of their favorite blogs.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with my site, I have put together a short collection of highlights of the blog:
- I am probably best known for my relentless (some would call it “obsessive”) bashing of the Los Angeles Times (known to long-time readers of this site as the Los Angeles Dog Trainer). Each year I do a comprehensive annual review of the performance of the paper, rounding up all the paper’s follies from the previous year. Here are my annual reviews from 2005, 2004, and 2003.
- I broke the news of the sock-puppetry antics of L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. (Hiltzik is a former business columnist who had previously compared me to a Stalinist apparatchik.) Hiltzik lost his blog and business column as a result.
- I published two op-ed pieces (here and here) in the Los Angeles Times critical of the newspaper’s bias in coverage of significant issues.
- I was the tipster for a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times about Justice Ginsburg.
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals once corrected a high-profile opinion in response to a criticism made on this blog.
- I conducted interviews with the first known people to express doubts about the authenticity of the forged CBS National Guard documents (here and here ).
- I interviewed the editor of the Sunday Opinion (now “Current”) section of the L.A. Times, here.
Those are just a few of this blog’s highlights. I hope everyone who visits this blog from Power Line will bookmark the main page and return daily. Bloggers, please blogroll the site, and e-mail me at patterico AT patterico DOT com for consideration of a reciprocal link. And Bloglines subscribers can subscribe by clicking on this button:
Congratulations! Let’s see, more than two years and over two million visitors, and you’ve made Powerline’s Blog of the Week.
If it’s the two years threshhold, I’ll make it shortly; if it’s the two million visitors mark, I should earn that distinction in March or April of 2785.
Comment by Dana — 6/25/2006 @ 5:16 am
Congrats, Patterico. Thanks for reprising those highlights–very interesting reading, and all of them except Hiltzik happened before I started reading here. Congrats again.
Comment by Anwyn — 6/25/2006 @ 10:58 am
Thanks.
By the way, I had initially thought I would keep this post at the top of the blog all week, but I reconsidered after thinking about how Power Line readers get directed here — through links to individual posts on the Power Line News site. I decided that, if they’re not coming to the main site, why bother leaving the same dang post at the top all week? All that will do is annoy the regular readers.
So I won’t be doing that after all.
Comment by Patterico — 6/25/2006 @ 11:21 am
Patterico, so what happened to your rant about the NYT times publishing a Bush administration leak?
Comment by James B. Shearer — 6/25/2006 @ 1:59 pm
You and steve both asked this question. Why? It’s the post right below this one on the main page.
Comment by Patterico — 6/25/2006 @ 2:09 pm
Very interesting blog Patterico. I’ll be sure to stop in every now and then.
Comment by David — 6/25/2006 @ 3:49 pm
Congratulations! I’m bookmarking your site. I’ll comment from time to time. Loved your SWIFT program post on the difference betweeen LAT, NYT, and WSJ, as well.
Comment by Donald Douglas — 6/25/2006 @ 5:05 pm
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