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  •  ok (none / 0)

    you know i was just joshin' ya anyway.

    But I'm curious now. Are you guys actually thinking of yourselves as a "media outlet" now?

    That's very interesting to me.

    by praktike on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 10:32:25 AM PDT

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    •  Outlet (none / 0)

      I knew you were joking, and even considered mentioning it before you got a troll rating.  

      Media outlet?  If so, I need to negotiate a contract or organize a union, because I'm not making any money off the endeavor.  I just liked the idea of doing a post which derived some of the "on-the-spot" reporting directly from one of our regular bloggers, and not something filtered through one of the established media outlets.  But you raise an interesting question; I just haven't thought about it enough to give you an answer.

      The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.

      by DHinMI on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 10:38:42 AM PDT

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      •  more thoughts (none / 0)

        Thanks for helping me out. I have been troll-rated before for my frivolities.

        Anyway, often there is a silly discussion of blogs as somehow "competition" for Big Media. Most blogs do zero reporting, some do some analytical work with think tank studies and government data and so forth, but generally speaking blog posts are the equivalent of Op-Eds.

        Now, if you guys are starting to get coordinated and going to events (I recall there was some of this with Iowa, and some of it was, um, not exactly reliable) and describing your observations, suddenly that's a different role, no?

        I personally really enjoy this aspect of dailyKos, but I also think it might be worth y'all's whiles to put your heads together and think about what it all means, in case there are any possible risks of any sort to what you're doing. I'm not saying there are, or that my advice is worth listening to, but it's something to consider.

        by praktike on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 10:51:20 AM PDT

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        •  Done in a certain manner ... (none / 0)

          ...Op-Eds (and blogs) often include original reporting.
          Something you don't have to worry about: mad carrot disease

          by Meteor Blades on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 12:15:24 PM PDT

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          •  Yes (none / 0)

            But it makes me nervous when that happens on the Op-Ed page.

            Do I really trust that Tom Friedman actually talked to that T-shirt manufacturer?

            Why did Bill Safire suddenly come across that leaded memo?

            Why is the WSJ editorial board talking about Teresa Heinz and the Tides Center?

            Why is Robert Novak on the board of that company?

            Etc.

            by praktike on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 12:48:54 PM PDT

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            •  Well, OK, but some people are ... (none / 0)

              ...made more nervous when the news pages sound like the reporter is writing an Op-Ed.

              Blogs get to have it both ways without having to make that separation - a fairly recent invention, by the way - between "objective reporting" and opinion-mongering.

              It would, obviously, be of the greatest service to us news//opinion junkies if reporters, columnists and blogsters would all strive for factual accuracy no matter what they're writing.

              Something you don't have to worry about: mad carrot disease

              by Meteor Blades on Sun Apr 25, 2004 at 01:18:20 PM PDT

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