NYT: Conservative Blogs More Effective -- With Caveats
NATION/POLITICS
COMMENTARY
The Times blows everyone's mind and concedes (what everyone knows) that conservative blogs are more effective than liberal blogs at getting their message out. The article's shallow analysis simply attributes the success to a "vast right-wing conspiracy" rather than to quality content and delivery.
The truth? The truth goes somewhat beyond playing the conspiracy card.
If liberal bloggers calmed down and made their cases rationally while backing up the statements by facts, they would be much more effective. As it is now, liberal bloggers often come off as a whiney, blathering, and divisive rabble who find it easy to point out their dislike of certain issues but don't offer many solutions to those problems.
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin goes much further and calles the article a CANDIDATE FOR DUMBEST NYTIMES PIECE EVER
NEWSLINES
"Liberals use the Web to air ideas and vent grievances...."
"One blogger on the Republican side can have a real impact on a race because he can just plug right into the right-wing infrastructure that the Republicans have built."
NEWSBYTE
Conservative Blogs are More Effective
(NYT) When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine's 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed that politically damaging information about Corzine was about to surface in the media. It didn't. But New Jersey talk-radio shock jocks quoted the online speculation, inflicting public-relations damage on Corzine anyway. To Stoller, it was proof of how conservatives have mastered the art of using blogs as a deadly campaign weapon. Read full story.
TENSION: Blame it on the vast right wing conspiracy
GRAVITY: Divisive
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COMMENTARYThe Times blows everyone's mind and concedes (what everyone knows) that conservative blogs are more effective than liberal blogs at getting their message out. The article's shallow analysis simply attributes the success to a "vast right-wing conspiracy" rather than to quality content and delivery.
The truth? The truth goes somewhat beyond playing the conspiracy card.
If liberal bloggers calmed down and made their cases rationally while backing up the statements by facts, they would be much more effective. As it is now, liberal bloggers often come off as a whiney, blathering, and divisive rabble who find it easy to point out their dislike of certain issues but don't offer many solutions to those problems.
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin goes much further and calles the article a CANDIDATE FOR DUMBEST NYTIMES PIECE EVER
NEWSLINES
"Liberals use the Web to air ideas and vent grievances...."
"One blogger on the Republican side can have a real impact on a race because he can just plug right into the right-wing infrastructure that the Republicans have built."
NEWSBYTE
Conservative Blogs are More Effective
(NYT) When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine's 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed that politically damaging information about Corzine was about to surface in the media. It didn't. But New Jersey talk-radio shock jocks quoted the online speculation, inflicting public-relations damage on Corzine anyway. To Stoller, it was proof of how conservatives have mastered the art of using blogs as a deadly campaign weapon. Read full story.
TENSION: Blame it on the vast right wing conspiracy
GRAVITY: Divisive
Tags: current events, politics, News, terrorism, Middle East, White House, Iraq, war, journalism, mainstream media, press, Blogs, Blogging, online, Web2.0, Web 2.0, Citizen Journalist, weblog
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