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Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism
USA TODAY ^
| 12/29/03
| Kathy Kiely
Posted on 12/30/2003 6:01:39 AM PST by GOPBlonde
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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They used to be known as the boys on the bus: the big-name columnists, network TV producers and reporters for large-circulation newspapers who had the power to make or break a presidential candidate's reputation. Now they've got competition. In the 2004 election, the boys (and girls) on the bus have been joined by a new class of political arbiters: the geeks on their laptops. They call themselves bloggers. Their mission: to remake political journalism and, quite possibly, democracy itself. The plan: to run an end around big media by becoming publishers on the Internet.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; blogs; changing; internet; journalism
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:01:40 AM PST
by
GOPBlonde
To: GOPBlonde
Way to Go, GOPUSA!
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:02:36 AM PST
by
GOPBlonde
To: GOPBlonde
I don't think Drudgereport is a blog. There is no diary. It's an online tabloid sheet that derives it's content primarily from other sources and links to it. A blog is an ongoing vanity post somewhere.
To: GOPBlonde
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:11:29 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: GOPBlonde
Most make no pretense of objectivity. Sure. What we need are more journalists who make a pretense of objectivity but are really partisian to the bone.
To: GOPBlonde
" Dean, whom bloggers like to cite as Exhibit A of the impact of the medium,..."Oh, yeah! They got that part right!
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:05:05 AM PST
by
Redbob
(this space reserved for witty remarks)
To: GOPBlonde
nomorebull.com and takeitfromme.com
Look for these two quite soon!
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:07:22 AM PST
by
thesummerwind
(Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes)
To: TexasTransplant
check back later ping
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:25:20 AM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(Life is like a roll of toilet paper, it goes quicker the closer to the end you get)
To: TexasTransplant
Anyone else notice it is right-leaning blog sites that dominate? In fact the left does so poorly they (e.g.,those that would promote the sites) have to find and list sites few have ever heard of (or read about until now).
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posted on
12/30/2003 8:20:23 AM PST
by
CT
To: GOPBlonde
Here a list from our Northern Cousins ( Free Dominion )--
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posted on
12/30/2003 10:10:54 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)
To: billorites
There is a FReeper named
wretchard that may be the author of Belmont Club. The writing style seems similar anyway.
His blog is absolutely one of the most perceptive and well-written out there.
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posted on
12/30/2003 3:01:16 PM PST
by
mikenola
To: mikenola
One in the same. I was particularly interested in his/her analysis during the invasion of Iraq.
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posted on
12/30/2003 3:16:29 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
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