The Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal has an excellent editorial crediting blogs and the internet generally with making a huge political difference and turning voters right around—from strongly liberal to strongly anti-liberal.
The article is called “How Daschle Got Blogged –
And how online journalism is transforming politics.”
Bloggers received a lot of attention for helping to expose the fake documents backing up Dan Rather’s “60 Minutes” story on President Bush and the Texas Air National Guard. But that’s only one of the interesting ways in which the Internet is empowering people and shaping political coverage.
Indeed, the real power of bloggers in politics is how they interact with their mainstream media counterparts. Online journalism gives critics of the media a way to talk back, a platform from which to point out bias, hypocrisy and factual errors. And if the criticisms are on target, old-media institutions can’t help but take note. That’s exactly what just happened in South Dakota’s epic Senate race between Minority Leader Tom Daschle and his GOP challenger, John Thune.
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And you know the bloggers are hitting a nerve because this is the typical old media response (from the same article):
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.”
Wow. How intelligent the liberal media is….
I occasionally post samples of my email here. I could single-handedly dismantle the hideous myth—the lie—that the liberal-left “are the compassionate ones, the tolerant ones”. Just look above to the off-handed reference to Hitler—in public, from the Executive Editor of a newspaper yet. Imagine what they say when they think nobody is looking or listening.
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