Post by Moses on Mar 14, 2005 11:53:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/technology/14blog.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
The author of this article completely fails to mention the money trail behind various "blogging" sites and their relationship w/ power players/influencers. E.g. he gives alot of space to advice from FreeRepublic.com without mentioning the huge right wing dollars and power players (now in office) behind this political spider web. Nor does he mention AOL- TimeWarner's suspicious sponsorship of Drudge.
One source is quoted as saying: "It's not just a story about the blogosphere," said Jack M. Balkin, a professor and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. "It's a story about the conservative social networks of which the blogosphere is a part. The important thing is the network - and I mean the social network." But the story then degenerates into presumptions that content-worthiness (without mentioning source of the content and its orchestration by say Karl Rove) is an actual factor on what the mainstream media picks up.
The story is about a group of bloggers "who describe themselves as liberal or progressive" setting up a conference call w/ mainstream news editors, to make up for their lack of a "social network" that benefits right wing bloggers/propagandists.
The social network here in Washington is most definitely a factor, but the pretense that there isn't an orchestrated propaganda campaign going through the blogs is a glaring omission.
The author of this article completely fails to mention the money trail behind various "blogging" sites and their relationship w/ power players/influencers. E.g. he gives alot of space to advice from FreeRepublic.com without mentioning the huge right wing dollars and power players (now in office) behind this political spider web. Nor does he mention AOL- TimeWarner's suspicious sponsorship of Drudge.
One source is quoted as saying: "It's not just a story about the blogosphere," said Jack M. Balkin, a professor and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. "It's a story about the conservative social networks of which the blogosphere is a part. The important thing is the network - and I mean the social network." But the story then degenerates into presumptions that content-worthiness (without mentioning source of the content and its orchestration by say Karl Rove) is an actual factor on what the mainstream media picks up.
The story is about a group of bloggers "who describe themselves as liberal or progressive" setting up a conference call w/ mainstream news editors, to make up for their lack of a "social network" that benefits right wing bloggers/propagandists.
The social network here in Washington is most definitely a factor, but the pretense that there isn't an orchestrated propaganda campaign going through the blogs is a glaring omission.