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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Sioux Falls
Jan Frel at Personal Democracy Forum shows that some of the bloggers attacking the newspaper for its bias were being paid: "Nine bloggers -- two of whom were paid $35,000 by Thune's campaign -- formed an alliance that constantly attacked the election coverage of South Dakota's principal newspaper, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. More specifically, their postings were not primarily aimed at dissuading the general public from trusting the Argus' coverage. Rather, the work of these bloggers was focused on getting into the heads of the three journalists at the Argus
• Daschle, Thune and the Blog-Storming of South Dakota [The whole idea of the White House press corps is that the reporters in it represent the public's common interest in seeing executive power questioned, monitored, examined, explained Jay Rosen: De-Certifying the Press ; Blogs are distinctly powerful because they are content, marketing and distribution all rolled into one Why "Blogging" Sucks ]
• · Evan Schaeffer offers some blogging advice for Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner Legal Eagloggers ; The Legal Underground Word of the Week
• · · Apple 1, bloggers 0: Judge says web sites can be forced to reveal sources. Big Apple ; Everyone fudges things sometimes. Everyone makes mistakes. Some people even make many mistakes. But some people make many mistakes to further their own agenda. Case in point, Matt Drudge, of the widely read Drudge Report.
This blog, the Fudge Report, will dutifully act as a rhetort to Drudge's report. As a diversion to the aspersions! As A utopia to the right wing myopia! As A...ah well let's call it a success if we pump out more than two posts Curtsey of Fudgers
• · · · The court was interested in the question of whether online reporters are legitimate journalists, but for most of the hearing, the judge assumed that they were journalists and examined whether the reporter's shield should apply in this case. Under the First Amendment, the reporter's privilege is qualified -- it does not protect reporters under all circumstances Apple v. Bloggers - No Ruling Yet ; Rights of Online Journalists Hang in the Balance
• · · · · Can Corporates Blog? The blunt answer is in the title of Shel 'n Scobe's book-in-progress, Blog or Die. ; Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over The coming crackdown on blogging
• · · · · · The Sunday Telegraph in its Magazine today bring us Gawker which first appeared in the Guardian last year ... Nick Denton could be the first person, like me ;-) to get rich from blogging: I'm an internet addict, I don't have the concentration span to do anything else. Everyone in the Manhattan media world reads Gawker. It tapped into something that was eagerly responded to... Every morning I get out of bed for that temp in midtown who's sitting there already crying because she is so bored, We blogs are the voice of the underclass. The people who send in stuff to me are the assistant at Vanity Fair, the poor girl who just tripped and fell in the Condé Nast cafeteria. They are abused not just by corporate culture but by celebrity culture, and something cracks and they have to vent. Their revenge? Schadenfreude! Jessica Cohen: Gawker-Goddess ; Good God: at the Courier Mail it's a sacking offence to talk to the media. The absurdity wasn't lost on the Independen The Courier-Mail tries to stop staff reading this paper