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To: Sully- who wrote (8512)	3/14/2005 11:50:56 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Lefty Bloggers Craving Media Attention Blogs for Bush Paul over at Wizbang brings our attention to a New York Times article on liberal bloggers and their persistent begging for "big media ink." I remember a time when Howard Dean was running for President, and these liberal bloggers were regularly invoking the theme of "grassroots" and "people-powered" this, and "people-powered" that. Two years ago, they thought their "grassroots movement" was going to remove George W. Bush from the White House and replace him with Howard Dean. They actually believed they were doing the job that the "right-wing media" (their description, not mine) wasn't doing. Now, after several victories by the "right wing" bloggers to move the news and Bush's reelection, liberal bloggers feel emasculated because they've just not been as effective/influential as the conservative bloggers. They've definitely tried. While conservative bloggers can say they helped take down Dan Rather and Eason Jordan, the liberal bloggers went after an unknown pseudo-journalist (who no one had heard of before) reporting for an online publication (which frankly, few people read). Now the liberal blogs want to move from "people-powered" to "media-powered"... just because they want some time in the spotlight. It is hard to blame them for desiring media attention — bloggers want recognition for what they do. But recognition by the media does not necessary increase their influence. Truth be told, liberal blogs seem to enjoy most of the media attention. It's hard to find story about blogs that doesn't mention Daily Kos or Wonkette. It's never occurred to the liberal blogosphere that maybe the reason they've lacked influence is because they've lacked substance, or as Paul says, "right-wing blogs have had a stronger influence because we have had the facts on our side!" I've said before that liberal bloggers may have put blogs "on the map," but the conservative bloggers made blogs a landmark on that map. Conservative bloggers are the ones demanding accountability in the media, not unity with the media. That's why conservatives blogs have been more influential. UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis weighs in... buzzmachine.com Posted by Matt at March 14, 2005 10:00 AM blogsforbush.com

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