In "No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players"

FreeRepublic is a discussion forum, not a blog. they even say it on their home page. (It's not even a good discussion forum, and has been way too heavily moderated over the years.) Blogs should not get any credit for this.

In "Why Does Robert Thompson Get Quoted So Much?"

Here's one answer.

In "Curious George: How do you research old news stories?"

Most university libraries subscribe to Lexis-Nexis, so go to your nearby state university and access it from their terminals (it's called "Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe"). Newslibrary and Proquest is also usually carried at university libraries.

In ""

My favorite obscure one is laexaminer (@laexaminer.com)/laexaminer. It works on most sites except the LA Times (when they disabled the account) and Washington Post. It goes back to the old LA Examiner blog run by Matt Welch.

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