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NEW YORK — When General Motors Corp. wanted to stop
\n speculation this spring that it might eliminate its Pontiac and Buick
\n brands, vice chairman Bob Lutz took his case directly to dealers and
\n customers, who were up in arms.<\/p>\n
He wrote on the company’s blog.<\/p>\n
”The media coverage on the auto industry of late has done much to paint an ugly
\nportrait of General Motors," began Lutz’s entry on GM’s FastLane Blog, launched
\nin January. The March 30 entry went on to say that widely reported remarks he
\nmade to analysts had been ”taken out of context" and that the automaker
\nwould not shed the brands.<\/p>\n
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\n is becoming appear ant that while Blogs are undoubtedly a powerful,
\n in some ways revolutionary,
\n advance in mass communication, there is nothing inherently anti-establishment
\n or liberating in their power, which can be channeled by anyone who understands
\n the principles of promotion and can operate a keyboard.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Media, who currently control the national attention span, are under blog-attack
\n not only by a legion of Pajamahadeen but also by the political and economic
\n power centers with which it is at odds. Corporate and political blogs
\n have been around since the dawn of the ‘Sphere, but now CEO’s, PR departments,
\n political parties and national candidates are blogging.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Blog, the Official Ronald McDonald Blog, Condi Nasty’s World, and the
\n counter-attack of the media moguls, the CNN Blog, Rupert Murdock’s Blog,
\n the Saddam Hussein Blog and Dan Rather in Pajamas.<\/em><\/p>\n