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“Thank you for taking my call.” I’m pretty sure I said that, but if I didn’t, well, then, thank you for taking my call.
If you want to hear some very nice things about Ohio’s blogs, you can listen here. It comes after Dan Moulthrop introduces me as someone on the phone, about 30-40 mins. into the show. The guests were David Cohen, political science professor University of Akron Bliss Institute of Applied Politics; Mark Naymik, politics reporter, The Plain Dealer; and Bill Hershey, statehouse reporter, Dayton Daily News. Moulthrop hosted.
Here’s my approximate transcript of the relevant portion:
I asked (on air): “The Ohio Democratic Party hired an online communications director, newly elected State Treasurer Rich Cordray specifically thanked bloggers – what influence if any do you believe blogs had on Ohio’s races and what do you anticipate Internet communications to play in 2008?”
They said: (paraphrased; listen for exact quote)
Cohen: “The blogs impact is increasingly greater. Their assistance with GOTV will only increase.”
Naymik: Blogs are great aggregators of information for campaigns. They help activitists motivate. All campagins are hiring them (bloggers) because you can move the chatter and then the media follows. It’s very much a part of the race. Great tool.
Moulthrop: Meet the Bloggers forum interviews influencers. “I myself have referred to many of those interivews online.”
Hershey: The first thing I do each morning is I go to PD’s Open page and the local blogs. Bloggers are up on everything. They don’t leave a rock unturned.
Not sure who said this: Here in NEO and across the state, blogs are a great source of energy though a still recent phenomenon. There was blogging on the Republican and conservative side – but “the Democratic bloggers and progressives outblogged them.”
And that last phrase is a direct quote, thank you very much.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:04 pm November 9th, 2006 in Politics
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Phyl heard this, but I didn’t. I just went to WCPN.org to download the MP3 but it isn’t there yet.
Good for you for calling, Jill! Phyl tells me you identified yourself only as “Jill from Pepper Pike,” but one of the panelists recognized you as the author of WritesLikeSheTalks, “one of the better blogs.” Nice try, but you are far too highly regarded for anonymity at this point!
Cohen is very blog-friendly and is in fact real life friends with some of us Akron bloggers. Not surprising he’s down. And of course Moulthrop found me for the faith convo piece through my blog.
The big news is that media sources are reading blogs. Blog readership will be a relatively small cohort of self-selected, highly engaged voters for the foreseeable future. But when we have the ability to nudge a neglected story into the mainstream media, we can truly be a force for good.
Ha, Jeff re: notoreity. I just told the woman that answered the call whatever she asked -my name, where I’m from, what did I want to say and was a blogger (since my question was about blogs), then she asked for the blog’s name, but that wasn’t announced by Moulthrop. I believe it was Mark Naymik, God bless him, who recognized the name, voice and town. He likes to call WLST thoughtful, or thorough, or both – I forget. And, as I’ve said before, those are just fine descriptions for me!
Thank you for the support. I follow your lead, buddy.
Dave was on the radio and didn’t tell me? That’s a first.
As for the ’sphere’s pull: I agree with Pho. At this point, our real power, if I can use that word, is to put stories out that the MSM then picks up.
Both left and right, we saw that throughout this cycle. I can only imagine that will increase.
Agreed. Fascinating to watch and be a part of.
Hi Jill–
As Pho says, I am blog friendly & I read all your blogs usually daily, sometimes more. My opinion is that some of the best political blogging in the state, perhaps the country, is right here in NE Ohio–Psychobilly, Pho, Chief Source, WLST, WOM, Yellow Dog Sammy, etc.
I think Pho & Red are right & it’s something I thought of later but in the heat of the moment forgot to say–blogs are perhaps most valuable in simply getting information & stories “out there” where the MSM may or may not pick up on them.
Politics is being changed dramatically by the Internet. Without “the Macaca Moment”, George Allen is reelected & the Senate stays in the hands of the GOP. What a tremendous impact You Tube & blogs, which pushed this story & never let up, had on 2006.
Keep up the good work all–I’ll be reading & learning.
p.s. I told Haas about the damn show but he slept in–said he had a long night the night before. Lame excuse.
Well, we all know how lame Jason is.
Not.
Thanks for reading and commenting. If we could only come up with a better term than “blogosphere.” I don’t mind it so much, but I hear others in it say they hate it. And, I guess I have to say that it does make me think of John Travolta and the boy in the bubble movie from the 1970s or whenever that was.
It will be fascinating to see how candidates and campaigns adjust to this new level of transparency, and how voters adjust as well. I think it’s important, but I guess we also have to be careful that we don’t make mountains out of the wrong molehills, or something. All too new to really predict yet.
I did read somewhere today, though, that campaigns expect to go flat or decrease television ads in future cycles, in favor of the Internet. I’ll see if I can find the story and post it later. Probably not a big surprise.