[lbo-talk] Webloggers?

[snit snat]

At 02:11 PM 7/27/2004, Kendall Clark wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Anyone seen any decent "weblog coverage" of the Dem Convention? I
>can't help but laugh at the widespread idea -- mostly held by
>webloggers themselves -- that these are "citizen journalists".
>
>So far the only posts I've seen are the equivalent of "I got
>credentials" and "Boston is crowded".
>
>Does anyone really believe that these folks  are going to report on
>actual *news*?

I guess I don't see that as the point of the bloggers. They're editorials, 
not news.
They're just another way for the Democrats (and probably Republicans) to 
get the base fired up.

Oooop. Obama's speaking..  (boy, Dean was a boring speaker.)

Kelley

"We're in a fucking stagmire."

       --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'