In general it makes little difference the medium, the message has to be checked out. Blogs, for all the good they perform, are more suspect than even MSM in my view. They may have a permanent record like government e-mails, but a message is hard to trace and harder to verify to the original source. So in one way, it is good to find a commercial success like DailyKos, because it is easy to tell who controls it. I watched the owner being interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-Span and had a fairly good idea of where he's coming from. As with all news and opinion sources, it makes money by having enough controversy to whet the appetites of those who are looking for argumentation. This is not to say that it is not a worthwhile endeavor. Like CNN and the other TV news stations, they have a place. I don't watch them much either. It has never occurred to me to watch O'Reilly and Coulter. But of course they come up in online venues. Salon.com is a source I use for stories which aren't likely to be covered in other ways. Today there is a long story about a woman who may be in the wings as a Coulter cohort. I saved it in case the matter comes up again.
All of this is what might be considered defensive readership. One doesn't learn much but one learns why the 24-hour litany goes on.
Living in Chicago during the post WWII times until the beginning of the Rust Belt, I learned reading the Tribune was all right for those who still liked McCormick farm equipment and nineteenth century philosophy. In l973 the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story about possible impeachment of Nixon, citing a possibility that it would happen because of the Trib's change of mind. The Sun-Times was a little more oriented to working families. Both are no longer owned by those previous owners. As a matter of fact, each are likely to have, yet again, new owners. Also I read The Defender. S. I. Hayakawa was a columnist which drew me to it. (If we get on the professor's bio, we'll be on a tangent.) I realized The Defender was good journalism, and the cultural addon was comparing the horoscopes in the Sun Times with the Defender. The latter was much more likely to have an upbeat outlook. Since I wasn't there for guidance, I treated the exercise as a bit of social experience.
When the folks were all worried about how black folks were going to vote in 04, I searched out the Defender and the Amsterdam News. I saw how the historical black press was as reduced in output as the white press was.
Human relations, racial relations, socio-economic positions. Whatever, in my view, relates more to one's interest in furthering economic betterment is what we are interested to learn about. I looked at your page. Looks good to me. Please keep writing here, when you have a chance, Tacoma Activist.