Yes. A) I’m busier than I have been. B) I agree with what Laura is saying. As Memeorandum will show you any day, blogs tend to piggy back on top of the regular media and as such, they discuss the same articles.

I do have must reads, and I do find the opinions given by some bloggers to be highly valuable. In fact, I tend to gravitate to people who take media reporting, do a little research, and write about that. Folks like Ritholtz over at The Big Picture or Calculated Risk provide insight into industries and policy areas I am less familiar with (the markets and housing respectively).

I also do read a lot of technology blogs which, by and large, offer much more original content.

Ultimately, though, I use the blogs I read to tap into a wider community and to act as an aggregator of interesting news. In that way, they’re awesome, and I find myself leveraging some blogs to clue me into a big story, and then use the other blogs I know about as a sort of expert rolodex. Need to understand some healthcare story? See if Ezra Klein has written anything. Missing the significance of some international diplomacy? Check out Belgravia Dispatch or Laura Rozen. Etc. etc.