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George Orwell anticipates the Glenn Reynolds style of political blogging at seven decades remove, in Down and Out in Paris and London:

“[...] It seems that they are correspondents for a Moscow paper, and they want some articles on English politics. If we go to them at once they may commission you to write the articles.”

“Me? But I don’t know anything about politics.”

“Merde! Neither do they. Who does know anything about politics? It’s easy. All you have to do is copy it out of the English papers. Isn’t there a Paris Daily Mail? Copy it from that.”

“But the Daily Mail is a Conservative paper. They loathe the Communists.”

“Well, say the opposite of what the Daily Mail says, then you can’t be wrong. [...]”