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Whenever new media evangelists want an anecdote to illustrate the potential
\n power of the Blogosphere in influencing real world events and creating,
\n rather than regurgitating, news, they bring up the downfall of Trent
\n Lott. Its a great story, particular if you aren’t a big fan of racist
\n redneck reactionary Southern Republicans and closet Dixiecrats.<\/p>\n
Now a recently completed study done at the The It is available as a free download .pdf from the Shorenstein. The The selection below were typed out by the Dowbrigade, letter by letter. Lott’s remarks did not go unnoticed by the scattering of print and television Within two weeks, however, the hum would grow into a roar and, under download Whenever new media evangelists want an anecdote to illustrate the potential power of the Blogosphere in influencing real world events and creating, rather than regurgitating, news, they bring up the downfall of Trent Lott. Its a great story, particular if … Continue reading
\n Joan Shorenstein Center<\/a> on the Press, Politics and Public
\n Policy at Harvard’s JFK School of Government looks at what exactly
\n went down in story by story, post by post detail,
\n and it makes fascinating reading. This is the perfect article (longish
\n at 26 pages) to send to somebody who is really into the news and the
\n news industry but doesn’t really understand what blogs are or how they
\n interact with the traditional media.<\/p>\n
\n weird thing is the extent to which the authors have gone to make sure
\n this milestone article in the academic history of the Blogosphere is
\n unbloggable. Excerpts or selections of the text cannot be saved, or copied
\n and pasted. The document cannot be converted to another format or saved
\n as anything else. The words “Not to be Copied” in 92-point faded-shit brown watermark letters are splayed diagonally across each and every page. <\/p>\n
\n We took a perverse pleasure in this exercise because, quite frankly,
\n as soon as we are told we cannot do something we want to do it. Obviously
\n this is a fundamentally anti-social attitude and for this reason we indulge
\n it only occasionally. In this case we were further motivated by the sincere
\n belief that by quoting a portion of the document some of our readers might
\n be interested enough to download
\n the entire thing<\/a>, which we found well
\n worth the read.<\/p>\n\n
\n journalists present, but with the notable exception of one ABC reporter,
\n they chose not to refer to them an their accounts of the party, which
\n largely mirrored the genial tone of the event. Nor did the press revisit
\n the matter in the days immediately following the party; the story of
\n Lott? speech surfaced sporadically in the newspapers and on TV talk shows,
\n but was not given sustained or prominent coverage. Among one group of
\n political writers, however, Lott’s words received close and unremitting
\n attention. These were the "Bloggers" – the slang term for the pundits
\n who kept online journals oc commentary known as "Weblogs." While the
\n mainstream media stayed largely silent on Lott, the "Blogosphere," as
\n some called
\n it, hummed with indignation and outrage.<\/p>\n
\n intense pressure from his own party, Lott would step down as majority
\n leader – an event unprecedented in the annals of the Senate. In the aftermath
\n of this unforeseen and, to many, astonishing outcome, some credited bloggers
\n with playing a central role in the unraveling of Lott’s fortunes and
\n hailed them as a potent and unconventional new voice in the nation’s
\n media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n the PDF to read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"