The staying power of blogs
This was a story I had filed away to post about and I came across it today. I thought it was still of interest to post.
Lynch of CBS News makes predictions on 10 summer stories that will
still have legs in the fall: One of these predictions was on the staying power of blogs. Here’s the excerpt on blogs:
in the mainstream media predicted that blogs were just a fad. In 2005
they have not only survived but have achieved greater legitimacy as
credible voices of advocacy. Perhaps no better illustration is Dan
Balz, the Washington Post chief political reporter, who has started
using blogs to illustrate dissent inside the Democratic Party. While
more establishment political players will say nasty things off the
record or on some form of background, bloggers exist to tell it like it
is. The anger on the left at Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic
Leadership Council, as well as the division between the liberal
blogoshphre and the Democratic Party in the special election in Ohio,
were all played out on the blogs, as Balz reported.
This was
published back in August. She is
going take at look at this list in a few months to see what she
missed and just how strong those legs turned out to be. I don’t know if
she has followed up on the story yet but I’ll be on the lookout for it.
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