The Mainstream Media. Just for the record, I do not exactly ascribe to the view that blogs are responsible for promoting certain news that the MSM ignores. Interestingly, people consider cable news to be the MSM. These same people actually pay for the news that they denounce everytime they pay their cable bill.

Give credit to the reporters who first break a story. Give credit to a blogger who investigates and reports something that another blog or small town paper isn't reporting about. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to wonder why one sees the exact same stories on the big blogs.

TPM broke the story about the Plum Book and the powers it gave to the office of the vice president. Then, Josh Marshall asked the question, "What took the non-blogging political world so long?" The Seattle Times certainly gave credit to Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune on April 30, 2006 when he broke the story. It was a simple thing to google that article and also give credit to a comment made by Pity the Fool in Think Progress on January 25, 2007. A big shout out to Mark Silva and Pity the Fool, for being the first ones to realize the importance of the Plum Book's revised description of the new and improved dual role of the vice president.  ¶ 2:53 AM