Talk:The Daily Howler

message: I disagree with the POV edits, Sommerby is unusual in the field for criticizing both sides, while he does not disguise his liberal leanings he is far less partisan than media matters which only ever reports right wing bias. He is also notable for attacking left wing bloggers, which incidentally is probably why his rankings have slipped a bit of late, people are less willing to link to him after he slams them. Incidentally, mention of Chris Mathews is misleading, on the left Mathews is considered a right wing pundit even though Mathews still claims he is a democrat. --Gorgonzilla 18:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: Sommerby broke the story of how Declan McCullough reporting comments on his own reporting created the false 'Gore claimed to have invented the Internet' meme. Anyone want to get the details?--Gorgonzilla 20:33, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: Here are some comments I included in the VfD as evidence of notability.  Perhaps some of this is interesting to incorporate in the article.
The Daily Howler is notable because it is one of the most influential political blogs out there. Arguably, it is notable also because it was one of the earliest political blogs (1998).
Evidence of influence (this list could easily be expanded):
* The Columbia Journalism Review ran an article about The Daily Howler and its author Bob Somerby from which I quote:  "Bob Somerby needs no introduction, of course, unless your days are spent solely in the brick-and-mortar world..."
* Paul Krugman opened one of his op-eds for the New York Times as follows:
A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good to see ourselves as others see us. I've been finding The Daily Howler's concept of a media "script," a story line that shapes coverage, often in the teeth of the evidence, particularly helpful in understanding cable news.
* The Daily Howler was included by CNN on a list of about twenty "political must-read" websites.
* It is currently listed by Alexa as the tenth ranked journalism site.
* Many of the most prominent political blogs include The Daily Howler on their blog roll or equivalent, despite the fact that Somerby does not reciprocate (he has no such list): e.g. Daily Kos, Instapundit and Brad Delong's site (I only checked these three).
Crust 16:57, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: I thought this was misleading, as in fact Somerby's main focus, and the objects of his most vitriolic attacks, are those members of the supposedly left-leaning "mainstream media" who tend to fixate on meaningless minutiae and neglect real reporting in favor of speculative commentary on people's motives.
Pwallach 17:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed this from the last sentence: ", although more articles are critical of right wing media bias than left." 

message: Shouldn't the fact that Somerby was Al Gore's college roommate be mentioned somewhere here?  His friendship with Gore is pretty obviously relevant to the origins of his site. john k (talk) 16:39, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background