Rob Booth calls attention to this Chronicle/AP coverage of yesterday’s two-sentence U.S. Supreme Court order regarding Texas redistricting, and local blogger William Dyer’s analysis of that order.
Dyer’s analysis goes well beyond the AP coverage, and is yet another example of the important ways that intelligent bloggers have begun to supplement (even supplant) dinosaur media. Few journalists are intellectually equipped to analyze complex cases of election or business law, but plenty of bloggers are quite comfortable doing so. Indeed, Dyer’s brief discussion of Texas redistricting in his comments section is enlightening in its own right.
Keep an eye on blogs like his, in which the posters bring special expertise to a range of topics. They’re the new alternative media, and many of them are quite good. In this case, the analysis beats that Chronicle/AP dispatch hands down.
