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Journalists do read blogs.  Some more so than others.  Some have even been able to integrate fairly well with the blogosphere.  But stories from the blogs really only get pushed when the blogs explode over something that viewers can easily understand.  JedReport's video on Hillary's Tuzla trip was one of the greatest examples ever.  Jed put it up on dKos and digg, the video went viral, and -- voila! -- the story was front-page, above-the-fold news the next day.

Otherwise, you have cases like Jerome's, where an issue and theme is hammered constantly for months or even years, and finally it begins to creep in as, through events, it becomes an easy sell to the press.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 08:58:47 PM EST
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I'll have to check out that JedReport video.

Drew J Jones: Otherwise, you have cases like Jerome's, where an issue and theme is hammered constantly for months or even years, and finally it begins to creep in as, through events, it becomes an easy sell to the press.

I hear you.  Still, see this comment: Friedman has arguably been at the leading edge of the media-blogosphere push to make green industry and renewable energy a central public policy issue in the U.S.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 09:08:27 PM EST
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Here's the JedReport video: Very funny.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 09:11:52 PM EST
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Yes, very funny.  Very well done.  And very depressing.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 09:18:49 PM EST
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