Megan McArdle has a great post up on all the obstacles to leaving poverty, which pretty much blows away a lot of my previous annoyances with her all too frequent streaks of business school arguments.
My self-observed metric for the journalists I end up following seems to be mostly underdog-based. I picked up my Dave Weigel habit after the Washington Post fired him over the journolist scandal (although I'm still lukewarm on Ezra Klein), Moe Tkacik after she got in trouble for "outing" the women accusing Assange of rape and Mac McClelland based on the completely hysterical overreactions to her self-biographical piece on PTSD and violent sex.
Another way to put it is that I really like to follow journalists who bring their own voice and personality to their work (which is one reason I'm sad to see the demise of Bloggingheads), and I'm definitely beginning to discover that in McArdle.
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