Saradise Lost: How Alaska Bloggers Dethroned Sarah Palin

What happened during the campaign was that organically, Alaska bloggers formed their own “all-Palin, all-the-time” reporting collective — their own de facto reporting pool — that often rivaled traditional outlets in terms of output, and one that regularly surpassed the mainstream media for local knowledge and insight.

Did they sometimes play a bruising brand of hardball? You betcha. (What else would you expect in the Last Frontier?) But were they mostly fair and accurate in…