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POLITICAL BLOGGING: Macaca Mania
Online political junkies bemoan the fact that politicians are too cautious and don't engage in genuine, freewheeling conversations with "the people." But are the people, with new media in hand, actually fostering less straight talk and interactivity by "tracking" politicians with video cameras and tape recorders, and constantly replaying and mashing up every political gaffe, no matter how minor?
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K. Daniel Glover is the executive producer of Eyeblast TV, a video-sharing site and online social network created by the Media Research Center. He also writes at the Eyeblast blog, Video Done Right. Glover has 17 years of journalistic experience in Washington, with most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly. He headed Technology Daily and wrote Beltway Blogroll for National Journal. Glover also is the publisher and executive producer of AirCongress, a portal to audio and video of, by and about Congress. And he has other blogs about presidential homes and the tax burden in America.
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Jane Hamsher is the founder of firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, PBS and the BBC, and is the author of the best-selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films as Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight. Firedoglake is best known for its groundbreaking coverage of the Valerie Plame case and live-blogging of the Scooter Libby trial. FDL is the home of the Blue America column and Accountability Now PAC, and FDL readers helped raised more than $500,000 for progressive candidates in 2006, $250,000 for '08 candidates, and more than $500,000 to hold them accountable to the voters.
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Jon Henke is a strategic manager at New Media Strategies in Arlington, Va., where he has consulted for the Fred Thompson presidential campaign and other public affairs clients. Previously, he was the new media adviser to Senate Republicans in Mitch McConnell's Senate Republican Communication Center, where Congressional Quarterly said he “launched one of the first and most successful blogger outreach operations on the Capitol Hill, one that has served as a template for other offices.” Henke has been a blogger for 5 years at QandO.net and TheNextRight.com.
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Matthew Sheffield is president of Dialog New Media, a marketing firm specializing in political technology for campaigns, non-profits, and businesses. Working with the Media Research Center, he created NewsBusters.org in 2005 as the first-ever collaboration between a major Washington policy group and the blogosphere.
In 2006, Sheffield launched "NewsBusted," a twice-weekly fake news comedy show that is one of the most popular political vlogs on the web.
A weekly technology columnist for the Washington Times, Sheffield and his work have been quoted and cited by every major American newspaper and cable news channel.
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Matthew Yglesias is senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He holds a BA in philosophy from Harvard University. His first book, Heads in the Sand, was published in May 2008 by Wiley. Yglesias previously worked as an associate editor at The Atlantic, as a staff writer at The American Prospect and as an associate editor at Talking Points Memo. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, The Washington Monthly, and other publications. Yglesias has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC and has been a guest on many radio shows.
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