Captains Quarters (blog)
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Captains Quarters is a blog operated by "Captain" Ed Morrissey, a conservative blogger based in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
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[edit] History
"Captain's Quarters" started in October of 2003. Based in Minnesota, the blog is part of the "Northern Alliance Radio Network" and has links to Powerline and Hugh Hewitt.
[edit] Adscam
In 2005, a Canadian judge issued a gag order that barred Canadian media from covering the hearings of the Gomery commission, which was investigating the "Sponsorship scandal" (better known as Adscam), a scandal involving allegations that the Liberal Party of Canada had been funneling government funds through Canadian advertising firms.
A source in the Canadian legal media - still publicly unknown - circumvented the gag order, feeding the details of the Gomery hearings to Morrissey, who published them on the blog. [1]
As a result, Morrissey's blog became for a few weeks one of Canada's most-viewed news sources (his traffic rising at the height of the story to 400,000 visitors a day, mostly Canadians, from his usual 30-40,000). Morrissey's coverage was considered by some to have been a key factor in the victory of the Conservative victory in the subsequent national elections. [2]
[edit] Other media
In July 2006, Morrissey began writing for the Heritage Policy Blog, which is hosted by the Heritage Foundation.
Morrissey is also an occasional columnist with several news outlets, including the New York Sun and the American Spectator. He is also a co-host of the Northern Alliance Radio Network.
[edit] Trivia
"Captain" is "just a nickname"[3]; Morrissey has never served in the armed forces.
