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How Blogs Took Down Daschle |
2004-12-13 |
Very Interesting exposition of what it took to take down Dascle. Guess what it took? Bringing down a newspaper. Read it all. Fascinating, as well as instructive... Patrick Lalley, the Argus Leader's assistant managing editor, acknowledges that the blogs had an impact on how his paper covered the Senate race. They certainly got under the skin of some of the paper's executives. Randell Beck, executive editor of the Argus Leader, called some of the bloggers work "crap" and said they represented an organized effort by conservatives to discredit his paper. In July, he explained to readers that "true believers of one stripe or another, no longer content to merely bore spouses and neighbors with their nutty opinions, can now spew forth on their own blogs, thereby playing a pivotal role in creating the polarized climate that dominates debate on nearly every national issue. If Hitler were alive today, he'd have his own blog"... |
Posted by:badanov |
#6 TW: Taranto rocks my world. |
Posted by: badanov 2004-12-13 3:32:39 PM |
#5 the Argus spent all their time, and David Krantz's effots at trying to keep Daschle in office. When, as a news media, you spend all your time trying to suppress news and spin what's left, you don't have time to run a blog... buh-bye, Tom Thumb |
Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-13 2:34:45 PM |
#4 The Wall Street Journal has its own blog (Best of the Web at OpinionJournal.com). It's very highly rated, too. Why can't the clever people at the Argus Leader do the same? |
Posted by: trailing wife 2004-12-13 2:31:36 PM |
#3 If Joseph Stalin were alive today, he'd have his own.... oh, wait, Daily Kos already beat him to it! |
Posted by: Secret Master 2004-12-13 12:44:19 PM |
#2 Boo freaking hoo. Start your own blog them Beck, you wuss. |
Posted by: Secret Master 2004-12-13 12:41:51 PM |
#1 "true believers of one stripe or another, no longer content to merely bore spouses and neighbors with their nutty opinions..." Nice attempt at equivocation, Mr. Beck. "playing a pivotal role in creating the polarized climate that dominates debate on nearly every national issue." Which means your 'professional media' really ought to work harder at providing information, and not just regurgitating handed-in talking points. "...If Hitler were alive today, he'd have his own blog"... How terribly, terribly original. |
Posted by: Pappy 2004-12-13 12:18:08 PM |