Another critique on Wonkette

Last March, the Evangelical Outpost had some rather choice remarks about Wonkette, which can be found here. Here are some excerpts:

There is only one form of blogger that is more tedious that the navel-gazer who posts about the eflluvia of their daily lives and that is the blogger who gazes at other people’s navels, especially those who do so looking for lint.

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Both sites [Wonkette and Gawker] are published by entrepreneur Nick Denton whose Gawker media also includes blog sites dedicated to reviewing p*rn (Fleshbot) and gadgets (Gizmodo). Denton is to snaky blogs what Mark Burnett is to reality TV: a well-connected insider whose projects gain attention simply because of his “brand.” This helps explain why his blogs attract attention despite the fact that they completely suck.

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Jack Shafer ... refers to these blogs as “the twin offspring of a date-rape incident between Drudge Report and the original Spy magazine”

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These blogs don’t even produce a sugar high, just the bad aftertaste left by a third-rate knockoff of Sweet N' Low.

Yet notice that both blogs are mentioned in major daily newspapers (as well as Shafer‘s Slate column). Can the attention that they have received truly be attributed to their content? Or is it simply that US magazine-style blogs will inevitably receive more attention that Wilson Quarterly-type content providers?

The major daily newspapers mention Wonkette (and Gawker, though not so much, I think) and portray it as what a "real" blog is like because it's sickeningly liberal. If Wonkette had a conservative slant, it would be barely a blip on the MSM radar screens. And, as EO mentions (and I have mentioned), Cox's rich backer helps matters a lot, too.