tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13368104.post3940594582266765519..comments2024-03-06T05:30:41.694-05:00Comments on Pho's Akron Pages: Blogging -- And Feeding -- The HorseraceScott Piephohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849171870929674248noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13368104.post-14939907333509751012007-10-28T19:51:00.000-04:002007-10-28T19:51:00.000-04:00Well - I see that and I don't see it. I mean, I s...Well - I see that and I don't see it. I mean, I still believe that many if not most blogs exist because of a passion and/or frustration that needs expression, for the blog author, as opposed to being driven by the candidate or the issue.<BR/><BR/>What I read in Kurtz's piece is that the papers' blogs and the candidates wag each other. But the kind of blogging that is different, that matters and endures is the blogging that is just reflexive and responsive to the candidate: we're responsive to the reader and to instincts about interests that the readers, the audience have - not responsive to what the politicians want us to respond to - do you know what I mean?<BR/><BR/>I believe that to the extent papers' blogs simply interact with the candidates adn the issues and race one another, they aren't doing anything new or different and readers ultimately will turn from them on the Internet as readers turn from that stuff in print.<BR/><BR/>It's the Wom blog and your stuff and Lisa Renee and The Chief Source kind of material that I believe cuts a different image and one that resonates more with people who really want to know what's going on.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02175591212176951287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13368104.post-74628570638975397162007-10-28T09:41:00.000-04:002007-10-28T09:41:00.000-04:00I absolutely think that's true and mentioned that ...I absolutely think that's true and mentioned that in the piece. But I also think the blogosphere <I>in the aggregate</I> is drifting toward strident partisanship and horse betting and fear that the MSM blogs may make that a fait accompli.Scott Piephohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849171870929674248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13368104.post-59002829453864691262007-10-28T09:28:00.000-04:002007-10-28T09:28:00.000-04:00I know I should read the entire Kurtz piece before...I know I should read the entire Kurtz piece before leaving this comment but so be it:<BR/><BR/>Scott, don't you think that there ARE some of us who absolutely resist using those tidbits Kurtz says are fed to the sphere? Yes, many many many of them show up a range of political blogs (from trusted to disgusted), but many of us don't report on press releases at all or when we do, we really editorialize them.<BR/><BR/>What do you think?Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02175591212176951287noreply@blogger.com