Comments on: Clinton, Obama rumors abound on web – that’s news?

By: links for 2008-02-23 | The BFD on Brewed Fresh Daily

links for 2008-02-23 | The BFD on Brewed Fresh Daily — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:23:47 +0000

[...] Clinton, Obama rumors abound on web – that’s news? | Writes Like She Talks JMZ asks “What is the point of this Plain Dealer story? Anyone?” (tags: peedee) [...]

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:13:31 +0000

I love your second line, Maria! That’s so true, lol.

As for the time spent reading blogs to get input, I bet we will see a lot of new research on that come 2009. I hope so anyway – this 2008 presidential race is really the first one that’s had such a wide use of so many Internet tools, compared to 2004 – which is still memorable for Howard Dean’s successes on the ‘net.

By: Maria Shine Stewart

Maria Shine Stewart — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:27:46 +0000

I saw the article, too, and thought it was just a nice, little space filler. A similar article could run about bloggers’ controversial, unsubstantiated thoughts on coffee, education, writing without punctuation and capitalization, and many other topics. One real story (I think) is how much time people now spend reading blogs to consider making a voting decision (and other types of decisions) than before, forward links to others, and so on. And how such readers (like me) need to constantly separate the wheat from the chaff.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:29:08 +0000

You crack me up, Carole – and I mean that in the best of ways. I think political blogs became notorious because they dug up some stuff that had legs, and sometimes, I don’t think they even had to dig too much, you know?

I just don’t like it how the MSM has to insert lines about how they get it right and blogs get it wrong – yeah, that’s how I’m reading it, so it’s debatable but I know enough to know that that’s more or less what it is. They are going to end up without a job because of that failure to find a place in their paradigms for the new, which really isn’t even that new anymore.

By: NYT's McCain-possible-romance-w/a-lobbyist story highlights traditional media's rumormongering | Writes Like She Talks

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:21:50 +0000

[...] Cleveland’s only daily metropolitan newspaper, The Plain Dealer, is writing non-newsworthy blurbs about rumormongering on the Internet about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, let’s check in on what the journalism world is saying [...]

By: Carole Cohen

Carole Cohen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:47:51 +0000

You are expecting serious in depth reporting? Hope springs eternal! Of course it doesn’t matter; I guess the candidates aren’t providing enough tabloid style negative campaign sound byte info and the PD doesn’t have enough sports to report on this week. Yeah I’m cynical. The other side is, political mud slinging on the internet is what shaped early political blogging no? So to me it’s not news….at all. Just mho.