tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post114605831379288236..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Maybe Blog Triumphalism Is JustifiedJaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-1146171255328270102006-04-27T16:54:00.000-04:002006-04-27T16:54:00.000-04:00Hey, Jaime, do you like www.fillibustercartoons.co...Hey, Jaime, do you like www.fillibustercartoons.com ?<BR/><BR/>Check out the archive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-1146082774885927982006-04-26T16:19:00.000-04:002006-04-26T16:19:00.000-04:00I think L'Affaire Rather was something of a triump...I think <I>L'Affaire Rather</I> was something of a triumph for blogs, though really it was more of a triumph for the Free Republic message board (which is where the thing originated; the dolts at Power Line just picked it up from the Freepers and ran with it). But ultimately it was about bashing the mainstream media and getting them to correct stuff -- a worthy goal, perhaps, but one that reduces the blogosphere to the level of an ankle-biter at the heels of the "real" media. I don't think I would feel differently if the situation were reversed; the lefty bloggers brought down that conservative Washington Post blogger and I thought that was amusing (as well as another illustration of the conservative bias of the so-called mainstream media), but I didn't think it was any huge triumph. <BR/><BR/>What interests me about the blogosphere is whether it can introduce <I>new</I> stuff: new ideas, new storylines, that the "mainstream media" doesn't really want to cover or doesn't cover very often. And the other question is whether bloggers can actually do things professional journalists don't. Greenwald -- who wrote the book while he was blogging, got readers of his blog to help him with research for free, and used blogs to propel sales of the book -- is an example of that. <BR/><BR/>(And I'll throw in a gratuitous note of the irony that bloggers think it's bad for CBS to rely on forged documents for stuff but it's OK for the Bush administration to rely on forged documents for other stuff. I will never fully understand people who hold reporters to a higher standard than the government.)Jaime J. Weinmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-1146081962264422942006-04-26T16:06:00.000-04:002006-04-26T16:06:00.000-04:00It's interesting that you should finally consider ...It's interesting that you should finally consider blog triumphalism <I>might</I> be justified only at the point when a left-leaning blogger can claim some sort of victory, no?<BR/><BR/>It's not that Greenwald doesn't count. He certainly does, and kudos to him for however he's parlayed his blogging into a paid gig. But indeed, think back to <I>l'Affaire Rather</I> - wouldn't you have allowed for the plausibility of the triumphalist argument quite a bit earlier than now, if the pundits and candidates' affiliations therein had been reversed?Paul Dentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09855883770312791926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-1146068117497168312006-04-26T12:15:00.000-04:002006-04-26T12:15:00.000-04:00Dan Rather probably thinks blogs have a fair amoun...Dan Rather probably thinks blogs have a fair amount of power.Patrick Wahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15408356855300575520noreply@blogger.com