Slugger in g2

THE GUARDIAN cites Mick Fealty as part of "the new commentariat ... Britain's most influential political bloggers."

Exerting influence as a member of this new commentariat is not just a matter of how many readers one attracts; it's a question of which ones. "The freakiest thing is when you hear [a prominent commentator or politician] quote back a line or phrase that you've written, or something from a text you've brought to light," notes Mick Fealty, who runs the non-partisan blog Slugger O'Toole, covering Northern Irish politics. "Just last weekend, I read a whole sentence, in an editorial in one of the Irish Sundays, that I'd used the Friday before."

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Oliver Burkeman -- "The New Commentariat" in G2, The Guardian, November 17, 2005.
Mick Fealty's footnotes.

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