Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

August 26, 2004

More official voices…

The Wall Street Journal introduces the (few) official bloggers of the Republican National Convention. I stand by what I said earlier.

Posted by acline | August 26, 2004 | Posted in: Main | Comments (2)

2 Responses

  1. chuck  August 26th, 2004 at 11:14 am

    You’re right: there really aren’t that many bloggers covering the Republican convention. I did find interesting that one blogger mentioned that he is planning to vote for Kerry (and that another refused to divulge his choice).

    Also interesting that only one credentialed Blogger is female, and all are Caucasian. If I were doing the credentials I would have at least tried to cultivate the appearance of a little more diversity (whether that reflects “real” diversity is another matter).

  2. chuck  August 26th, 2004 at 11:17 am

    Note: I also think your comments about the Democratic bloggers are correct. There’s a clear A-List, and while many of those bloggers are very talented, it severely limits how blogging is understood by mainstream audiences.