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The rise of the Netroots
The liberal blogosphere started out as a place to swap polling data and bitch about Iraq. Now liberal bloggers do journalism, activism, raise money, run for office, and have vibrant outposts of progressive politics in nearly all fifty states.
Interested in learning more about the rise of the netroots? Head to TechPresident and let Matt Stoller [...]
The Age About Citizen Journalism: Not a Real Alternative
This morning I came across a piece in the Age titled DIY journalism is not a real alternative. The point its author is trying to bring across is:
Just as having Photoshop installed on your computer doesn’t make you a graphic designer, setting up a blog doesn’t make you a journalist — much less a news [...]
The Hill: DCCC reaches out to Netroots
With an eye to 2008, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is off to an early start in fostering its relationship with Netroots, The Hill reports.
According to The Hill, DCCC chairman, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), has committed to participating in a monthly conference call with bloggers and has talked to several on an [...]
Netroots and the establishment
“As the smoke began to clear after Election Day, two things seemed clear. Though the netroots have forever changed how campaigns raise money and find votes, the results demonstrated that they cannot yet win elections on their own. But the Democratic Party cannot win major national elections without the netroots”, wrote Nicholas Confessore in a [...]
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