Radio Silence & Recommended Reading

I’m flying down to Virginia tomorrow morning for a long weekend and will be avoiding certain parts of the internet (guess which?) as much as possible while I’m there. Here’s some several-times-daily sites I’ll be missing out on that I highly recommend you bookmark and check regularly:

Andrew Sullivan:  My favorite blog of them all, hands-down, Sullivan is on vacation but has a few guest bloggers filling in who are doing good work in his absence. Hilzoy’s “Dear Chris Matthews: Please Do Your Job” is a must-read for those sick and tired of the “Obama’s inexperienced” meme.

First Read: MSNBC is my cable news network of choice as I find them to offer, relatively speaking, the most balanced election coverage and least overtly biased commentators, particularly Keith Olbermann, Mika Brzezinski, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow, and, believe it or not, Joe Scarborough. Their political blog often has solid analysis and interesting nuggets from the campaign trail and doesn’t feel the need to post about every single non-story that comes up throughout the day.

Jack and Jill Politics: Sharp, biting commentary on politics from a self-described “Black Bourgeois” perspective, they’re unabashed Obama supporters who completely defy the increasingly offensive “ignorant cult” meme that some in the media are trying their damndest to make stick.

TPMElection Central and Ben Smith @ Politico: My opinion of both has diminished a bit recently with their willingness to give way too oxygen to some of the more ridiculous non-stories that have popped up recently — and I’m starting to believe Smith really does have a subtle bias for Clinton — but they’re still worthy reads that occasionally point out interesting nuggets from sites I don’t frequent.

The New Republic: I just subscribed to the magazine after devouring their two most recent issues and am slowly working the site into my daily rotation.

What blogs are you reading regularly these days?

Written by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is the Chief Content Officer for LibraryPass, and former publisher & marketing director for Writer’s Digest. Previously, he was also project lead for the Panorama Project; director, content strategy & audience development for Library Journal & School Library Journal; and founding director of programming & business development for the original Digital Book World.