Internet News vs. Mainstream Media
August 2nd, 2007
Jonathan E. Kaplan, a staff writer for The Hill, is covering the YearlyKos convention and will provide periodic updates on the Congress Blog.
One dominant theme at the second YearlyKos convention is the outright anger toward the mainstream media (MSM in blogging parlance).
Lane Hudson, who first disclosed Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) emails to a former congressional page, S.R. Sidarth, whom former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) called “macaca,� and Mike Stark, whom an Allen aide tackled at a campaign event, blamed the mainstream media for poorly covering campaigns. The trio appeared on a panel together and credited blogs for connecting the dots and fleshing out the stories involving Allen and Foley.
However, Sidarth and Stark also argued that, even though Allen singled out Sidarth at a campaign event, it never would have become national news if Allen had not tried to deny what he said.
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