{"id":2589,"date":"2004-09-21T20:07:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/21\/nbc-on-cbs-and-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2004-09-21T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T00:07:33","slug":"nbc-on-cbs-and-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/21\/nbc-on-cbs-and-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC on CBS and Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3857'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just turned on the NBC Evening News, and they are featuring a story on Bloggers, in respect to their role in exposing the Rather documents as fakes. They ask the question, &#8220;Who are they, and how did they get so powerful?&#8221; Funny, we don&#8217;t feel so powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Brokaw opened by calling us &#8220;amatuer pubdits&#8221;. A breif interview with Scott Johnson. whose conservative blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\">Power Lines<\/a> was almost instantly all over the Rather documents followed.  Then a 10 second definition of what a blog is, featuring a clever graphic of the words &#8220;Web Log&#8221; on a computer screen contracting to BLOG. Motivation? According to Tom, media distrust. Modality? Anything goes. Method? Media bashing. What else could we expect from a big-time Media mouthpiece like Tom.  He dredged up the hoary story of Trent Lott once again, and closed by proclaiming us &#8220;A new voice in setting the national agenda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We wish. We truly do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just turned on the NBC Evening News, and they are featuring a story on Bloggers, in respect to their role in exposing the Rather documents as fakes. They ask the question, &#8220;Who are they, and how did they get so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/21\/nbc-on-cbs-and-bloggers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}