After posting a response to critics of his Walmart/healthcare post without linking to a single critical entry, Matthew Yglesias decides to highlight this essay from Apartment 11D, lamenting the decline of blogospheric courtesy. WTF?
by Will on July 2, 2009
After posting a response to critics of his Walmart/healthcare post without linking to a single critical entry, Matthew Yglesias decides to highlight this essay from Apartment 11D, lamenting the decline of blogospheric courtesy. WTF?
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I’ll bet that Yglesias linked to every critical post that he could find, but they were removed by the director of Think Progress.
Or it could be that in the past four or five years, it’s not the blogosphere that has declined, but Matthew Yglesias.
We’ll know when Yglesias links to this post. Unless the director of Think Progress prevents him from doing so.
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