'Bloggers' allowed to cover party conventions

 

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

 

More than 30 independent Web journalists have been accredited to cover the Democratic convention, and the Republicans said they'll also credential so-called bloggers.

 
It's the first time bloggers will be joining the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at the quadrennial presidential nomination events.

 

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Cool.  When do I get my invitation?

 

Actually, this is, indeed, pretty cool.  Bloggers, biased as they are, have become an extremely important, albeit imperfect, stop-gap solution to the ongoing utter failure of the mainstream media.  The corporate news will, no doubt, continue to cover the conventions as fluff-piece, horse race journalism.  Bloggers will cover policy, which the mainstream news used to do when I was a kid.  I think Tom Tomorrow of This Modern World is going, but then he's been covering the conventions for his comic strip for some years now.  I think that Atrios of Eschaton is going, too.  I can't wait: this'll be some good stuff.

 

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