Crosscut published the third of its 3-part series on political blogs today, focusing on mainstream media blogs. Blogs from the Tri-City Herald, Seattle Times and Oregonian are featured (while our Political Buzz gets an "honorable mention" of sorts) along with this lead-in:

Today, a newspaper without a posse of blogs is so passé. The New York Times currently hosts more than 70 blogs, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has more than 29 staff-written blogs and dozens of reader blogs. The Tri-City Herald has 12, the Everett Herald has 17, The Seattle Times has 20, and The Oregonian has more than 50 blogs.

Overkill? Never heard of it.

While the print media might have been late to the blogosphere's party, there's a handful of local media-backed blogs making a splash in state politics.

In case you're wondering, we have about 30 staff blogs at the TNT, although the number fluctuates as some come and go (any idea what we should do with our Sonics blog?)

The first two parts of the Crosscut series focused the top independent political blogs and a roundup of the rest.