In Politics, the Web Is a Parallel World With Its Own Rules (NY Times whines ...Bush hits Kerry )

The New York Times ^ | February 22, 2004 | JIM RUTENBERG

[lainie]

The article strikes me as a foolish attack on the web that they can't control.

[cyborg]

The left hates the Internet. They can't get their crap stained government fingers on it. Look at DU then look at FR. World of difference.

[Neets]

I get this suspicious feeling the NYT is tyring to tie this Bush Commericial to the Kerry Bimbo allegation.

PHTTTTTTTTTTT

[cyborg]

Oh well wait... this is probably the same crowd who spends a lot of time on that OTHER whitehouse site doing a lot of one handed typing in DU

[Temple Owl]

ping

[Keyes2000mt]

DU won't even let you search the site, if you're not a paying member.

[Mygirlsmom]

But part of the Web’s appeal has been its unbridled nature, and it is showing that it can act as a back alley — where punches can be thrown and things can be said that might be deemed out of place, even if just at a particular moment, in the full light of the mainstream media

Translated: The truth can get out on that wascally Web before we in the media can negate it, deny it, spin it around or just plain ignore it.

[SelmaLee]

A perfect translation!

[The Mayor]

I got this from the Repub e-news letter last week..

[cyborg]

really? Incredible... so typical of liberals.. they love their little gated communities!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Link at the bottom of the article is BOGUS: I got snookered: Put together by

©2001-2004 - a chickenhead productions parody

[johniegrad]

The Democrat candidates have not aggressively used attack ads on the Web, although they have used Mr. Bush as a target on television instead of confronting each other, which could risk weakening the party’s chances of gaining the White House.

After reading this statement, try to imagine which mode of public communication is controlled by the Democratic candidates. ROFL.

[lainie]

Agreed, agree, and ..[processing].....

Why, what's going on at DU?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What is the correct URL for the Whitehouse Website?

if it is Whitehouse.gov then someone has Hijacked it!

[edsheppa]

Well, well, well, I don't see any mention of the Move On ad comparing Bush to Hitler. Or any mention of any of their negative ads. How typically evenhanded of the NYT.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What is the correct URL for the Whitehouse Website?

if it is Whitehouse.gov then someone has Hijacked it!

[Steve Eisenberg]

This story is purest bias because Kerry's web site has anti-Bush videos, but it is strongly implied that only Bush has gone negative in this way. See:

Anti-Bush video from John Kerry web site

[Neets]

It IS whitehouse.gov.

The link you posted above is Whitehouse.ORG

[MJY1288]

White House