Blog keeps former reporter in the mix

Has the blogosphere become the place where reporters go to die?
abqtrib.com>”For Joe Monahan, every day is a great day to cover political news.
Not the heady stuff of policy and theory, but the daily gotchas and whodunnits that make politics one of New Mexico’s favorite spectator sports. Monahan, however, is not a reporter. Not anymore. Nor is he a pundit, though he sometimes plays one on TV. Instead, Monahan, 49, is part of a growing trend in Internet-based publishing. Every night, after finishing work at his consulting firm, Monahan sits at his computer in his Downtown apartment and taps out a newsletter that, when it is published online, quickly becomes the talk of “La Politica,” Monahan’s pet name for New Mexico’s political whirl.” read more>