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| What might it mean for various campaigns, and the Mainstream Media since John McCain and other candidates are reaching out to bloggers?… inviting bloggers to ply the candidates with questions, in sort of what might be called numerous ‘executive phone-news conferences’?
I think we’ll see it as a leap in growth and strength of ‘the new media’s many-armed presence, as well as– for now anyway– ‘a fishing in other rivers approach,’ to see which blogs /bloggers are ‘keepers’ that will further the campaign, and which are either too small, or too irritable, or don’t taste good.
The throwback bloggers will be sorted from the keeper bloggers , no doubt.
Yet, for a blogger to be invited in now, but then possibly dis-invited later, may set up more opprobrium against a campaign and candidate than they would like. We’ll have to see.
Giving bloggers more access to candidates and campaign people can be good for big media and their pressure to bring ‘new’ news every minute of the day and night. Bloggers and MSM are symbiotic.
They need each other and they feed off one another. Without one, the other would die. I think in the best ways, the MSM and bloggers nourish each other in terms of enabling delivery of real and gutsy news and views to the public in ever more fresh ways… each one acts as a renewing force for the other.
McCain’s campaign pledges to keep everything genuine and transparent by inviting bloggers of all persua ... |
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