{"id":155,"date":"2004-01-23T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/01\/23\/influence-of-weblogs-on-political-camp"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:42","slug":"influence-of-weblogs-on-political-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/01\/23\/influence-of-weblogs-on-political-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence of weblogs on political campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a65'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Associated Press article discusses how weblogs may contribute to, comment on and impact politicial campaigns. While some weblogs are oriented around a specific candidate, some provide journalistic commentary, such as Josh Marshall&#8217;s <a href=\"www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>; &#8220;blogs let [Marshall] mix news, opinion and personal observations with no meddling from an editor.&#8221;  Further, the article mentions how blogs synthesize and digest information from mulitple disparate sources.  Some take a jaundiced view of political weblogs, however; a GOP operative described bloggers as &#8220;armchair analysts in their bathrobes (with) no serious interest in leaving their living rooms to actually help the campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Associated Press article discusses how weblogs may contribute to, comment on and impact politicial campaigns. While some weblogs are oriented around a specific candidate, some provide journalistic commentary, such as Josh Marshall&#8217;s Talking Points Memo; &#8220;blogs let [Marshall] mix news, opinion and personal observations with no meddling from an editor.&#8221; Further, the article mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}