Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps

New York Times ^ | 7/26/04 | New York Times

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"Even as many networks are reducing their coverage of the increasingly predictable political conventions, the political blogs, which have become a fruitful alternative for individual voices, have been ablaze over the prospect of officially covering conventions for the first time. Ms. Merritt is one of about three dozen bloggers who have been given press credentials for the Democratic convention in Boston, which begins Monday. Another, Ana Marie Cox from the Washington gossip site Wonkette.com, will be working as a correspondent for MTV."

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Interesting that bloggers are being given access to the conventions. Interesting, too, that the NY Times decides to list and provides link to many liberal blogs in the article, while they're only comment on conserative blogs is "Organizers of the Republican convention have said they plan to issue credentials to 10 to 20 bloggers." Guess it wasn't worth their time to track down any of those.