{"id":2439,"date":"2004-07-10T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/10\/dowbrigade-dances-for-joy\/"},"modified":"2004-07-10T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-10T18:35:05","slug":"dowbrigade-dances-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/10\/dowbrigade-dances-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade Dances for Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Against
\n all odds and from the distant shores of South America, the Dowbrigade
\n somehow got his shit together long enough to apply for one of the limited and
\n highly sought after blogger slots at the Democratic National Convention.
\n After reading several articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about
\n the big-time bloggers who had applied, we  put our chances of being
\n selected a bit below Ralph Nader’s.<\/p>\n

Imagine our surprise when sorting through one of several big cardboard
\n boxes of correspondence which had accumulated in our absence to find
\n a letter from the convention organizers. So thin, one sheet, shades of
\n college applications, a rejection letter for sure. But no! This
\n letter<\/a> advised that we have been awarded a full floor pass for the duration
\n of the convention. The Dowbrigade will be blogging the convention!<\/p>\n

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(rare file photo of Dowbrigade dancing<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Our first thought was relief that, being the party currently out of
\n power, the Dems apparently lacked access to our full file. Our next
\n thought was our obligation to you, dear readers, to provide a kind of
\n coverage
\n you won’t be getting anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Then, Thursday night at the Berkman Blogger’s Meeting, we discovered
\n that no less than FOUR bloggers intimately involved with the Berkman
\n Center were among the select few.  Jay Rosen, a recently named
\n Berkman fellow, who immediately posted a brilliant
\n and insightful analysis<\/a> of the evolving role of the political
\n conventions and the press coverage thereof on his blog, PressThink<\/a>;
\n Dave Winer, who brings the power and inimitable style of Scripting
\n News<\/a>, and our blogging buddy Rick Heller, maestro of the Open
\n Source Novel<\/a> and the Swing Voter Weblog. There will be a whole contingent of Berkmanites working hard to crack the case.<\/p>\n

We are as excited about this as we have been about anything since Lisa
\n Sattinger invited us for a sleep over when her parents were out of town,
\n and we were only 15 then. The possibilities for fun and fireworks are
\n intoxicating. Can we loosen the stranglehold the major media have exercised
\n over the political process for over 50 years? We’re sure going to try.<\/p>\n

A sample from Jay Rosen: <\/p>\n

Now come the bloggers, a tiny group added to the mix, who with all their
\n faults and shenanigans have one great advantage. They aren’t a part
\n of the failed regime in political convention coverage. They don’t have
\n to pretend it has the right narrative. They’re free to look with fresh
\n eyes and re-decide what a convention actually is, knowing where the
\n dead zones are.<\/em><\/p>\n

from PressThink<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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