John Tabin (one of the invited, then disinvited DNC bloggers) has this scoop on convention coverage:
…Conservative bomb-thrower Ann Coulter will be writing from the Democratic Convention for USA Today’s op-ed page. For the Republican convention, they’re sending none other than– yup, some of you have already guessed it– Michael Moore.
As uninteresting as the conventions are, you’ve got to hand it to the USA Today for thinking outside the box padded cell…
As John notes, it sort of takes the steam out of the bloggers vs. media debate.
USA Today has, reportedly, already spiked Ann’s first column. See Drudge Report for both the spiked column and USA Today’s comments.