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And it's not safe for work. As you might already know, if you're a regular listener, we here at the professional

left did an extensive dive into the rise and gradual deterioration

of the liberal blogosphere during a series of no fair remembering stuff podcasts earlier this year.

But I was just listening to a pretty fair conversation between Joan Walsh, who is formerly of

Salon, and Tim Miller, who is currently of the

bulwark and MSNBC and shows up in your living room and is everywhere. And after fondly

recalling those heady early days of the blogosphere, when we really did stomp the terror,

Joan Walsh began wondering what had happened to all of us. And she just sort of trailed off.

But it was a good question.

And I got to give props to Tim Miller, who as of late, has been doing some mea culpas.

Yes.

And so here's what Joan Walsh said on the Tim Miller podcast.

Quote, yeah, it was lonely out there being anti-war

during the early Bush administration is what she's talking about. But the blogs took off and took

over. And that's what I recall. And I don't know what's going on now. I mean, you know, we all

bet on the internet. And, you know, Salon and Slate, we're going to eat the New York Times as lunch.

And, you know, we're just, it's still a slog at Salon. God bless them. They're still slogging along.

Slate's doing a little better, but it's a slog. And, you know, Huffington Post, yeah, Huffington Post was going to put everybody

out of business. I don't know where Ariana Huffington is now. She's definitely got a lot of money.

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