IS THERE A FINANCIAL REASON FOR BLOIS TO ATTACK BLOGS?

Politics In Minnesota: The Weekly Report, co-published by Blois Olson, sells subscriptions to a political newsletter which reports on Minnesota politics.

Blois charges people $75 a year to read his weekly publication. I run a blog that is free.

My blog is updated daily, not weekly. Even a political junkie like me questions why I pay $75 a year for week old news.

In its day, Politics In Minnesota: The Weekly Report was a credible publication that actually published news. Most of what Politics In Minnesota: The Weekly Report publishes today is days-old news stories and corrections from the previous week.

So let me be absolutely clear: Blois has said on the radio that he can show no actual demonstrable damages from the post that was the impetus for his frivolous lawsuit.

With that written, the very existence of political blogs (all of them) and the free exchange of political ideas (free both in terms of the openness that blogs provide and the actual lack of cost) could conceivably make his publication less attractive.

As such, blogs might hurt Blois' pocketbook.