Andrew Sullivan Shuts a Door
There’s an increasingly common view—Ezra Klein expressed it, at his site, Vox, after Sullivan announced his retirement—that old-fashioned conversational blogging is being killed by social media, because the big traffic is driven now by Facebook and Twitter, which can only trade in quick hits. Long conversations don’t go viral. Bloggers linking to each other can only ever be small scale.
.. Since he is given to intellectual drama, he often overreacted, and much of the entertainment of the Dish was watching him walk back his more outrageous arguments. Truly, it was nothing like a magazine.