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Relatively few of us paid attention to the nasty dust-up between the blog world and the Washington Post on-line. Jane Hamser of firedoglake , Digby, Atrios and a few others led the charge to correct the WaPos ombudsperson and it, in turn, led to claims of the blogosphere behaving like a "mob".
In addition, Arianna Huffington took Tim Russert on over his undisclosed plugging of his son's radio show (co hosted by Carville) on Meet the Press a week ago. That too, turned into a dirty little publicity department battle.
Both went on for about a week and, in truth, it's probably not over yet. But what I find interesting about it is that the rest of the traditional media seems to have paid attention to both of these incidents. There have been a couple of accounts on DU today about the press reporting "fairly" (on Kerry's reasons for being in Davo and coming back early) and Russert being a little more aggressive than usual with a Republican guest.
Maybe the blog battles are starting to pay off. Maybe traditional media knows that the "blogosphere" IS THE MAINSTREAM and a certain "Democratic Consultant" is going to learn this the hard way.{/b]
It is also possible that the Alito Nomination filibuster may prove to the rest of the media that the blogs ARE the power these days.
JMHO
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