When is blogging relevant?

Great discussion going on about the Washington Post's new Red America blog. Media Matters for America has sent a letter to Washingtonpost.com editor James Brady saying that putting in a political operator to write a political blog with a conservative slant does not balance out the perceived liberal blogging of a veteran journalist like Dan Froomkin.

Reaction in several places, many linked on Memeorandum, like this from Talking Points Memo ( and this from Froomkin's brother Michael in Miami).

(And, doesn't it still ring strangely to describe conservatives as 'red'? Does no one remember the Cold War?)