Check out this month’s In These Times for my editorial contrasting this year’s YearlyKos conference to the recent Journalism That Matters gathering in DC. A snippet:

The bloggers and readers at the YearlyKos conference don’t all agree on politics or tactics—their approaches range from investigative journalism to rhetorical Molotov-throwing. They don’t always know if they’re practicing journalism—and don’t care. They do know that the public demands accountability and truth-telling from media and government alike.