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Micah Sifry, who blogs at Personal Democracy Forum and is a senior analyst at Public Campaign (which I just muffed up the title of in an email to Sifry re: clean elections, duh), has this take on yesterday’s NYT piece about political bloggers. I like Sifry’s tone and am glad he wrote one of the op-ed’s authors, K. Daniel Glover (the other was Mike Essl,) to better understand what went on that produced the piece. Glover’s answers are there and Glover writes more about the piece on the Beltway Blogroll.
I don’t see anyone, however, asking or writing about the story’s lack of females, as I did in my Shut Up & Blog post. Mr. Glover?
Update: I’ve left comments on Mr. Sifry and Mr. Glover’s blogs re: where the women are, or aren’t as the case may be. Also, given the focus of the piece, Mr. Glover’s work as a blogger in the political realm undermines weigh more heavily his op-ed since it’s not like he’s not working for an entity closely aligned with politics, even if it’s a respected magazine, National Journal. Mike Essl, I read elsewhere, who did the graphic, is also a blogger – and that too isn’t mentioned in the byline. Just saying.
The generalizations are overused and if anything, bloggers should be working hard to dispell them – by the blogging they do as well as calling others out on it.
Udate x2: Just so’s we know, I checked the National Journal’s “Buzz Columns” to see what other blogs it has? Out of 11, only one is written by a woman.
Hell-low???
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:13 pm December 4th, 2006 in Politics
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Why should it mention I’m a blogger? I did the D E S I G N so it says I’m a graphic designer…
Mr. Essl, my post recites my observation that, “Mike Essl, I read elsewhere, who did the graphic, is also a blogger – and that too isn’t mentioned in the byline. Just saying.”
I did not make the observation that, “The NYT should have mentioned in the byline that Mr. Essl is a blogger.”
I gather you don’t think that your blogging needed to be mentioned. But you haven’t actually written that – I’ll let you speak for yourself, but I’m assuming that you’re implying that you don’t think the byline needed to indicate that you blog.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. I know there’s a lot that’s been written about the piece. Good luck to you.