Matt writes:
This is, perhaps, the sign of a really great article -- a blogger can't write a good post about it.
I think that's more true than not. The best sort of article for blogging is smallish, with a clear point, and a singular outrage or insight you can engage with. A broad, wide-ranging, informative article that clearly knows more than you do is, by contrast, very hard to blog about. Matt mentions this in context of telling you, as Nick did, to read James Fallows "Why Americans Hate the Media." So do that. My most recent encounter with an article like this was Arnold Relman's overview of the pharmaceutical industry, which I highly recommend everyone spend some quality time with.
