I should be in Vegas

I just watched a C-Span broadcast of one of the Friday sessions at the Yearly Kos convention now going on in Las Vegas. Dang, I wish I'd known earlier about that convention. If they have one next year, I'm going.

The panel was on the Valerie Plame case. It was chaired by Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake and included Ambassador Joe Wilson, security consultant and blogger and former CIA officer Larry, Johnson, Murray Waas, Dan Froomkin of WashingtonPost.com, Christy Hardin Smith of FireDogLake and Marcy Wheeler of Daily Kos.

I was really impressed. It made me even more inspired about the actual contribution that bloggers make to the national political conversation for focusing on issues and analyzing stories closely. A lot of what investigative reporters once did in terms of researching court documents and things like that is now being done by bloggers.

I was amazed to hear that Murray Waas, who blogs and also works for the National Journal, is the closest thing to a full-time reporter assigned to the Valerie Plame case. And even he's not on it full-time. That's just astonishing to me. Our "press corps" really is seriously dysfunctional. Big-time, seriously dysfunctional. Marcy Wheeler mentioned that Waas, who has followed the Plame case closely, is the only reporter on that story who she has found consistently reliable.

Northwest Progressive was live-blogging it.

So was Skippy.

Oh, and what Digby says about Jane Hamsher, she's right.

Just one thing about live-blogging an event in Vegas. What does that do to, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?"

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