{"id":77,"date":"2003-07-31T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/2003\/07\/31\/instajournalism-glenn-reynolds-funct"},"modified":"2012-05-04T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:06:25","slug":"instajournalism-glenn-reynolds-functioning-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/2003\/07\/31\/instajournalism-glenn-reynolds-functioning-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Instajournalism: Glenn Reynolds’ “functioning anarchy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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     Instapundit speaks<\/A>. <\/FONT><\/P>
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     Here’s the most interesting thing about Glenn Reynolds<\/A>–more interesting, I think, than his opinions: in the liberated information bazaar that’s supplanting the old journalism in this blog moment, the most successful broker of political news and views never had a “press” card, never rode the campaign bus, wouldn’t be recognized in any of Washington’s power restaurants. David Broder or Johnny Apple he is not. The Instapundit<\/A> is a Yale trained law professor at the University of Tennessee–better described, he says, as a “techno-libertarian” than as a conservative. The intersection of law and technology is the professorial specialty on which he has published abundantly. Blogging was almost an accident and is still an unpaid, unaccredited, off-hours hobby. And he’ll quit, he threatens, as soon as writing Instapundit begins to feel like work. <\/FONT><\/P>
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     In the meantime Glenn Reynolds is the reigning eminence in the political blogosphere. For his merry enthusiasm about the war on Iraq, he was fairly dubbed the “warblogger<\/A>.” But in fairness it must also be said that the pages of Instapundit ventilated all the arguments for and against the war far more thoroughly than any newspaper I read. It was “troubling and stressful,” he told me, to see that much news up close. But the war discourse built his “circulation” up to 220,000 visits a day. And it made Instapundit<\/A> perhaps the first inescapable and indispensable blog–certainly the model of robust, wide-open electronic axe-grinding at the center of a long political storm. In our conversation<\/A> on Wednesday afternoon, Glenn Reynolds was high on the purchase hours earlier of a Mazda RX-8<\/A> sports car. He is clearly a man of parts–a learned, quick, combative wit who’s interested in everything and most especially music. He is a Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/A> fan, a guitar player in several bands and part-owner of a no-profit record company, WonderDog Records. And still in his early 40s, he’s a patriarch in the blogosphere. It’s “more a functioning anarchy than a democracy,” he says.  Listen in<\/A>.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Instapundit speaks.      Here’s the most interesting thing about Glenn Reynolds–more interesting, I think, than his opinions: in the liberated information bazaar that’s supplanting the old journalism in this blog moment, the most successful broker of political news and views never had a “press” card, never rode the campaign bus, wouldn’t be recognized in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}