Glad to read that Eric Alterman, a left-leaning pundit I remember from long-ago McNeil-Lehrer NewsHours and other places — in fact I think it was Alterman who introduced me to the term pundit around the time his first “punditocracy” book came out — now has a blog on MSNBC.com called “Altercation”. Just a couple of days old at this moment but promises to be an interesting read. Not surpringly, yesterday’s first entry deals with blogging itself. I note that Alterman has an editor (or team of editors) for his blog, and is a bit embarrassed by that, and somewhat defensive about it too. Alterman is also apparrently a major Springsteen freak (he published a book on him last year). In his obligatory “links” section, which Alterman admits is still being worked on, the usual suspects (Cursor, Romenesko, Drudge, etc.) appear, and smack-dab in the middle of those is “Springsteen Archive“.
Naturally, while some are pleased at Alterman’s entry into blog land, others are predictably thumbing their noses.