Republicans told to blog, blog, blog (MSM is "old news")

[underpants]

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- A guidebook issued to Republican Senate candidates said mainstream media is old news and encourages extensive use of videos and Internet blogging.

The 39-page pamphlet written by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee for 2008 candidates also advises candidates to always assume they're being recorded and ensure that their opponents are also being recorded at all times.

Committee Chairman Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., also stressed the importance of using national and local blog sites to get their names and messages out rather than the mainstream media, Politico.com reported Thursday.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," Miller (DSCC spokesman) told Politico. "I'm glad the NRSC discovered the Internet in 2007."





Read more: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/06/14/republicans_told_to_blog_blog_blog/6850/

[babylonsister]

1. Trying to play 'catch-up', are they. nt

[central scrutinizer]

2. Blog this, mofos!!

Wouldn't the message be more important than the medium? (apologies to Newton Minnow.)

[EVDebs]

3. Then remember the word games GOP plays

Gingrich's letter on what to say along with the article by George Lakoff

"Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1276

Neurolinguistic Programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion_uses_of_NLP

UC scholar to help Democrats refine message
Party is urged to control policy debate
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/05/MNGDIA6N3I1.DTL

[Robbien]

4. DSCC Miller talking to Politico the GOP top dog blogger

Miller is a wanker. Pretending he has some kind of lock on the internet when the Politico/Drudge person he is talking to has a much bigger presence on the web and has much better organized GOP funding.

If Miller put some of that DSCC money into supporting the left side of the web, we wouldn't be such a disorganized mess.

[Supersedeas]

12. news to me

[liberal N proud]

5. To have an effective blog one has to have an effective message

That would require original thought, not possible with most republicons. They have been told what to think for so long. They go along with it.

[superconnected]

14. You win the car!

[TexasLawyer]

15. and one must have an audience

Most of the mouth-breathing Freepers I know don't have them new-fangled computers.

[EST]

6. One of the most effective aspects of blogs and the internet is that

the audience has to be actually involved, except, perhaps, for broadcast streaming. The number of "Drudges" is fairly limited, with the rest of the wannabes merely linking to that content and the original article.

If anything, I think the rise of internet journalism is a rough parallel to the printed word of a century ago.
This notion places in its proper context the widespread use of television and radio news as an aberration, a temporary "feed the weenies their bread and circuses" while making sure that the common man has no real notion of what goes on in the hallowed halls of korporate kleptocracy.

I would hesitate to accord internet journalism a total win on this, since printed word on permanent medium is nearly ineradicable, while printed word on a video screen is not.
However, the demands of internet business and other communication require that records be kept into perpetuity, so most of the advantages of newsprint are there, with the added advantage of sheer numbers.

I harbor no illusions that republicans cannot lie as well in print as they do in broadcast media, but, overall, the truth has an advantage in internet journalism-witness the taking to task of the erstwhile "ombudsperson" at WaPo online. It may be a slow, painful process, but, in this media, we will win.

[Alexia Wheaton]

8. The GOP does not like this media.

They would love to take control of it in order to marginalize the Democratic party.
Though, the GOP cannot dictate what happens on the net because there are many voices out there.

[ixion]

7. and by 'old news' they mean they have that dialoge so polluted that the medium is no longer

a threat to rethug (ill)logic.

Now, they want to try and pollute the blogosphere with their lame writing skills.

Good luck with that, reptiles. :grr:

[DrDan]

9. start using them internets

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Yeah put everything down in writing and on video.

That way no one can misquote you or take you words out of context. I'm sure that will work out fine for Republicans.

[yardwork]

11. ...and the Republicans thank God for spell-check

even thought they don't use it.

[superconnected]

13. Internet just got stupider, stupider, stupider

[Toots]

16. The more the merrier

Let the truth ring out...........