What the Thune bloggers really did
by janfrel
This piece is remarkable in how it sheds even further light upon the main difference between left wing and right wing internet activism. While the lefty netroots is frequently engaged in a wide range of activist work, the right wing netroots seems almost entirely focused upon the media--Chris
I recently wrote a long ass piece about what the group of bloggers did during the election for Personal Democracy Forum. Basically, this group of nine bloggers tried to get in the heads of the journalists responsible for covering the election at the biggest newspaper in South Dakota, and managed to. While I write about Gannon's role with the bloggers and on the disclosure issue, my central point is that these Thune bloggers spent all their time attacking these poor guys at this local Newspaper and rattled them.
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