24. For more on "No Exit" worth revisiting this fine piece by @amlamey: https://sanseverything.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/reckless-falsehoods.pdf … (pdf file)
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25. Sullivan's major achievement has been his pioneering work in blogging form, which he's been a master of.
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26. As with his tenure at TNR, one could easily do a list of the good and the bad in Sullivan's blogging.
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27. The dubious stuff on The Dish: the support of Iraq war and labeling of opponents as traitors, the Trigger Palin conspiracies, etc.
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28. But beyond doing a good & bad balance sheet, perhaps the best way to think about The Dish is as a literary form.
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29. I've talked about trigger essays as real time thinking, but an obvious precursor is Sullivan-style blogging.
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30. What held "The Dish" together despite variety of subjects and changes of mind? Nothing more than Sullivan's writerly voice.
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31. Sullivan's best blog posts were essays in the classic sense: essaying a topic, thinking out loud, arguing with himself.
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32. You do get a sense from Sullivan that however wrong he is on something, he is genuinely open to being challenged & re-thinking.
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33. Aside from being ideal vehicle for his own writerly voice, The Dish allowed Sullivan to mentor cohort of younger writers.
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34. Sullivan opened up The Dish to lots of great writers including @michelledean, @tanehisicoates, & @mattyglesias
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35. In fact, I'd argue that Sullivan's "editing" of The Dish (selection of guest editors) far superior to his editing of TNR.
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36. Editing a magazine like TNR, Sullivan didn't realize that by publishing an article he was giving it stamp of authority.
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