Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps(w/list)
Why does the media not think the sentence “Bloggers, unlike ‘journalists’ who are ‘professionally credentialed’, ‘have no pretense to objectivity’” very funny?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/politics/campaign/26blog.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1090851172-RLe1AU23vwwVgK3ytDnlMQWeb Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Meralyn Merritt had expected the news to come by e-mail rather than by snail mail, otherwise known as the United States Postal Service.
But she had to rip, rather than click, to open the message informing her that she had received press credentials to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston for her Internet Web log, or blog, at TalkLeft.com, where she offers a running commentary on political and criminal justice issues.
"A big smile broke out on my face and I just went 'Yeah!' " said Ms. Merritt, 54, who works as a criminal defense lawyer in Denver. "It was someone who was judging me on the work that I was doing for free over the last two years and found me worthy."
Even as many networks are reducing their coverage of the increasingly predictable political conventions, the political blogs, which have become a fruitful alternative for individual voices, have been ablaze over the prospect of officially covering conventions for the first time. Ms. Merritt is one of about three dozen bloggers who have been given press credentials for the Democratic convention in Boston, which begins Monday. Another, Ana Marie Cox from the Washington gossip site Wonkette.com, will be working as a correspondent for MTV.<snip>
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/0,,SB1090450... has some comments by some bloggers
Bloggers who responded to ..(Wall Street Journal) questionnaire
Jerome Armstrong1, MyDD.com. Former Dean supporter with strong handle on local races.
Patrick Belton1, OxBlog. Centrist policy analysis from three Oxford students.
Tom Burka1, Opinions You Should Have. Political satire, similar in style to The Onion.
Natasha Celine1, Pacific Views. Blog with a liberal political op-ed page, a blog review and discussion of West Coast politics.
Taegan Goddard1, Political Wire. Rounds up and analyzes political process stories.
Mathew Gross1, MathewGross.com. Political commentary from the former director of Internet communications for the Dean campaign.
Rick Heller1, Centrist Coalition's Centerfield. A Web log of centrist voices in American politics.
Aldon Hynes1, Greater Democracy. Former hedge-fund IT manager plans to focus on participatory nature of convention.
Kirk W. Johnson1, American Amnesia. A documentary filmmaker and translator focusing on U.S. policies in the Middle East, among other topics.
Gordon Joseloff1 and Jessica Bram, WestportNow.com. A local Web news site for Westport, Conn. not affiliated with a media company covering delegates and guests from Westport and other parts of Connecticut.
Ezra Klein1 and Jesse Taylor, Pandagon.net. Young partisan activists planning to cover controversial, funny, interesting events at the convention.
Byron LaMasters1, Burnt Orange Report. A group political blog by Democratic students at the University of Texas.
Allen Larson1, LarsonReport.com. A Bush supporter seeks grand political ideas, from both parties.
Paul McCullum1, William Oemler, Allison Grady, Dinner for America. Nonpartisan, youth-oriented, covering topics ranging from foreign affairs to hip hop.
Jeralyn Merritt1, TalkLeft. Liberal commentary on crime and justice from a Denver lawyer.
Alan Nelson1, The Command Post. News site aims to cut the spin.
Christopher Rabb1, Afro-Netizen. Entrepreneur who aims to inform, inspire and engage afro-netizens and the communities they touch.
Brian Reich1, CampaignWebReview. A blog examining the use of the Internet in politics.
Jay Rosen1, PressThink. Erudite commentary on journalism from chairman of NYU's journalism program.
Joe Rospars1, NotGeniuses.com and BlogforAmerica.com. Ex-Dean campaign worker writes for official Dean blog and a more general blog -- which will cover the other bloggers, among its topics.
Peter Rukavina1, Reinvented.net. Comment, opinion and news about local and national issues, technology, and everyday life from a Canadian.
Bill Scher1, LiberalOasis. News analysis, strategic advice, and copious links for liberals.
David Weinberger1, Boston.com. Often short, often humorous posts with focus on technology, from Harvard fellow, posting on Boston Globe's Web site.
Matt Welch1, HitandRun. Veteran L.A. journalist writing for libertarian Reason magazine's wide-ranging blog.
Jessamyn West1, Librarian.net. A "web log by a librarian for rarin' librarians, info junkies, freedom lovers and other weirdos"
Stephen Yellin1, DailyKos and OurCampaigns. Bright-eyed, precocious campaign analysis from New Jersey high-school student.
OTHER BLOGGERS EXPECTED AT THE CONVENTION
Michael Andrew2, JREGrassroots.org
John Burns3, Stinging Nettle
Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many4, Edgewise5, Greater Democracy6 and Radio Free Blogistan7
Michael Feldman8, Dowbrigade News
Dave Johnson9, Seeing the Forest
Nathan Paxton10, Nate Knows Nada
Dave Pell11, electablog
Matt Stoller, Blogging of the President12 and bostonDparty13
Alison Teal14, Hot Flashes From the Campaign Trail
Dave Winer15, Scripting News
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga16, DailyKos
Meet the Bloggers (35 of the 15,000 media)
By CARL BIALIK and ELIZABETH WEINSTEIN
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
July 27, 2004
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URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109045054755870333,0... Hyperlinks in this Article 1)
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001461.php (2)
http://jregrassroots.org / (3)
http://stinging-nettle.blogspot.com / (4)
http://x-pollen.com/many / (5)
http://www.mediajunkie.com/edgewise / (6)
http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/mt / (7)
http://radiofreeblogistan.com / (8)
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade / (9)
http://seetheforest.blogspot.com / (10)
http://www.nateknowsnada.org / (11)
http://www.electablog.com / (12)
http://www.bopnews.com / (13)
http://blog01.kintera.com/dnccblog / (14)
http://hotflashesfromthecampaigntrail.blogspot.com / (15)
http://archive.scripting.com / (16)
http://www.dailykos.com / (17)
http://www.mydd.com / (18)
http://oxblog.blogspot.com / (19)
http://tomburka.com / (20)
http://tomburka.com/archives/2004_05.php#000519 (21)
http://tomburka.com/archives/2003_05.php#000040 (22)
http://www.pacificviews.org (23)
http://politicalwire.com (24)
http://www.mathewgross.com (25)
http://centristcoalition.com/blog / (26)
http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/faith / (27)
http://www.greaterdemocracy.org / (28)
http://www.usamnesia.com/blog.html (29)
http://westportnow.com / (30)
http://pandagon.net / (31)
http://www.burntorangereport.com / (32)
http://larsonreport.com / (33)
http://www.dinnerforamerica.com / (34)
http://talkleft.com / (35)
http://www.command-post.org / (36)
http://www.afro-netizen.org / (37)
http://mindtest.typepad.com/cwr/index.html (38)
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink / (39)
http://notgeniuses.com / (40)
http://blogforamerica.com / (41)
http://reinvented.net / (42)
http://www.liberaloasis.com / (43)
http://www.boston.com/news/blogs/dnc (44)
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun / (45)
http://librarian.net/dnc (46) mailto:carl.bialik@wsj.com (47) mailto:elizabeth.weinstein@wsj.com
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