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May 12, 2003
impact of weblogs on political coverage @12:27 PM
There is a good wealth of information about this subject linked from this site. The debate is *raging* about the role that weblogs should play in the coverage of significant national events. In other words, what is the future / role of blogs in serious news coverage. I think many people have gotten the impression that weblogs are a trivial enterprise - an association best attributed to the personal /diary nature of many blogs. I think that what many don't see, is the possibility of amateur journalism to alter the publishing landscape. The Berkman center for Internet and Society at Harvard is pursuing just such a line of thought - offering a free blog to anyone with a harvard.edu email address. The goal is to inspire a discourse that breaks free of the current media environment - one based on consolidation and therefore a lack of freedom of expression - and informs the upcoming New Hampshire primary and subsequently, the next presidental campaign. A member of the Berkman group, Dave Winer (an unfortunate name), has this to say about the project:
Citizen bloggers covering the candidates for U.S. president. Everyone who hears the concept says Hmm, that might work. More than anything, I want the U.S. presidential election of 2004 to be a real election, to mean something. I wonder if many other citizens feel the same way?
With New Hampshire so close to Cambridge, the technology so ripe and the candidates so willing, it seems we may actually be able to route around the professional press and make something real happen this election cycle.
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