Little Notice but big impact?

[ewagner]

Relatively few of us paid attention to the nasty dust-up between the blog world and the Washington Post on-line. Jane Hamser of firedoglake , Digby, Atrios and a few others led the charge to correct the WaPos ombudsperson and it, in turn, led to claims of the blogosphere behaving like a "mob".

In addition, Arianna Huffington took Tim Russert on over his undisclosed plugging of his son's radio show (co hosted by Carville) on Meet the Press a week ago. That too, turned into a dirty little publicity department battle.

Both went on for about a week and, in truth, it's probably not over yet. But what I find interesting about it is that the rest of the traditional media seems to have paid attention to both of these incidents. There have been a couple of accounts on DU today about the press reporting "fairly" (on Kerry's reasons for being in Davo and coming back early) and Russert being a little more aggressive than usual with a Republican guest.

Maybe the blog battles are starting to pay off. Maybe traditional media knows that the "blogosphere" IS THE MAINSTREAM and a certain "Democratic Consultant" is going to learn this the hard way.{/b]

It is also possible that the Alito Nomination filibuster may prove to the rest of the media that the blogs ARE the power these days.


JMHO

[Burried News]

1. Keep doing what we're doing - soon we will hit the resonating frequency

[leeroysphitz]

2. Great analogy and image... N/T

[kentuck]

3. Thinking along a similar line...

Check out my last post. :)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I wonder if there's been a survey to find out

how many people have turned away from TV news to the internet. I think the results might be very interesting.