gatewatching

New post on the ABC’s Opinion Page is cross-posted over the fold. There’s some other great stuff there today, including a piece on a useful possible running-mate for Barry O’Bama

Andrew Landeryou responds this morning to a bizarre intervention by Neil Mitchell in the blog-gate affair, where he suggests that the Liberal bloggers should be prosecuted for “cyber-bullying”.
It leads Landeryou to offer a colourful call to arms, where he suggests that the activities of  Australia’s blogosphere point towards a potential “golden age of political journalism”. [...]

UPDATE: Lyn Calcutt over on Public Opinion takes up this theme, is much harder on CK than us, but makes some fair points along the way.
UPDATE 2: One of those points being, of course, that it was a blogger who broke the story in the first place.
UPDATE 3: Tree of Knowledge is onto this [...]