you see a lot of this wailing and gnashing in the media blog echo chamber, but since this is HN I'd like to point out how blatantly off base it is. one, contri

you see a lot of this wailing and gnashing in the media blog echo chamber, but since this is HN I'd like to point out how blatantly off base it is. one, contributors to "the blog" (the left column on the homepage) are the internet equivalent of a "letters to the editor" page or a cable news guest brought on to have their (employers) say.[1] two, the traffic generated by those posts is a small fraction of overall traffic. Nate Silver did some spitball math on it a week or two ago and came away with the right understanding.[2] [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/huffington-post-bloggers_n_821446.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/huffington-post-blo... [2] http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-economics-of-blogging-and-the-huffington-post/ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-econ...