{"id":2026,"date":"2005-11-16T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2005-11-16T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:45:43","slug":"open-source-media-nee-pajamas-media-opens-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Media (nee: Pajamas Media) Opens For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>They’ve already come under some harsh criticism<\/a> (also here<\/a> and here<\/a>) from the left for their far-right leaning Editorial Board and unbalanced collection of blogs, but the group previously known as Pajamas Media has opened for business-proper today under the name “Open Source Media”<\/a>. Discredited former NY Times<\/i> “journalist” Judith Miller was the keynote speaker<\/a> at their launch. (Both BuzzMachine<\/a> and Kos<\/a> have some worthy thoughts on that).<\/p>\n

OSM was founded by rightwingers Roger Simon<\/a> and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs<\/a>. The latter blogger, at least, being quite fond of disparaging his political opponents by labeling them as “moonbats”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, and despite their currently massive lack of editorial “balance”, several of their staffers have claimed in various recent conversations I’ve had with them that they hope to change that hard right tilt in the near future. The proof, however, will remain in the blog pudding.<\/p>\n

During their testing phase, I participated in a “BlogJam” with three other bloggers for them. That’s their term for an online debate forum. The no-brainer topic about which we debated a week or two ago was “Are left-right politics becoming too polarized?”<\/p>\n

That debate is now available online here<\/a> as one of their first offerings.<\/p>\n

I had fun doing it, as you may be able to tell. You’ll let me know how I did…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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