I've written a feature article on blogging for the Yorkshire Post today HERE. This is the intro...
There was a time, in the not so dim and distant past, when mainstream journalists viewed bloggers as the media equivalent of trainspotters. We were people who reputedly sat in our bedrooms, wearing an anorak and typing furiously on a laptop because we had nothing better to do with our lives.The Prescott affair has changed that. Blogs have helped make the political weather and, for the first time in this country, they have set the agenda for the mainstream media. And boy do they hate it. Over the next few days, you'll be treated to a stream of feature articles trying to explain this phenomenon and assessing what the long-term implications are for the so-called "dead tree" media.
6 comments:
I still can't see what you revealed iain other than a link to Guido's site.
can you please explain how you made the weather on this?
In a way isn't it the mainstream media actually making the weather by building you up as someone who makes the weather?
This seems to be an alice in wonderland scenario.
Enjoy reading your site though!
All too many blogs are 'one hit wonders' - never again to repeat the success of thier first major story.
They get a lot of hits for a week and start believing the people hitting the site are really interested in the blogger, not just the story - then the blogger starts writing drivel about what they had for breakfast.
Maybe Iain is different, maybe he's about to become a real internet militant - fighting a guerilla war against the established politcal machine, doing what the MSM can't or won't.
MK
If the picture of the Lib Dem candidate apparently cleaning graffitti from a wall in Bromley had been published a week or two earlier, instead of on the day of the by-election, it would have had a significant impact on the Bromley result.
The national press would have been all over it. It was just too good a story to miss.
The graffitti episode is a precursor of what's likely to happen in the blogosphere at every election from now on. To all politicians. Of all parties.
And as for making the weather? The traffic Iain and Guido get at the moment is high. But it's nothing to what it's likely to be in 12-18 months time. And you know what they say? It never rains but it pours. Can't wait.
Daily punit, good points, we will be on our guard, but so will other parties too.
There are no anoraks in my bedroom either, perish the thought!
Frank, you have a fair point. I didn't reveal her name and have never pretended I did. But I have a track record in this area - Kennedy, Oaten Cherie & Hutton etc - and becasue Guido won't appear on the media, they come to me - partly because they know me anyway.
Tom - I don't, no. It hasn;t in the US.
oldsarum - I don't have any pjyamas. But maybe that's too much information...
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