The Week’s Francis Wilkinson has written “The Future Belongs to Andrew Sullivan, an article about both Sullivan’s incomparable reporting of the Iran elections and the intellect that has let him create a credible and addictive news source. I found the article oddly touching:
I couldn’t help but notice that Andrew Sullivan wasn’t blogging this past week. I noticed it in the same way one might notice a large sinkhole in front of the house—something big and important was missing, and in its place was a void . . . his Daily Dish blog is a personal showcase that could only exist on the Web. In it, he gives his passions and prejudices a long leash while at the same time using his powerful intellect and critical faculties to raise questions, examine issues, wage feuds, advance crusades, and rebut fallacies. It’s also a platform that affords him great influence, which, in the meritocratic ways of the Web, he has earned single-handedly . . . .
In the first weekend after the Iranian election, when the street protests seemed to bubble up from underground, Sullivan’s blog was beyond compare, extracting original reporting from professional and nonprofessional sources inside Iran . . . With the help of a couple of assistants, Sullivan produced a journalistic tour de force that was more comprehensive, informative, provocative, and addictively compelling than anything produced by news organizations with hundreds of professional journalists on staff and coteries of experts on speed dial. His Iran coverage was the blogosphere’s moonshot
According to one man, at least, the future of media is a gay man. How great is that?
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