Bloggers already wrote about being covered by Nightline. Maura writes about being interviewed by Jon Donvan. Now the show is finally airing.
If Nightline had really leaned anything from bloggers, they'd permanently archive their newsletters and they'd already be promoting this on their site.
Here's the newsletter, so it will be archived somewhere:
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, BLOG 'EM [their all caps]March 8, 2005
Got something to say? Got access to the Internet? You're one step away from being a blogger. And these days, bloggers are having an affect on politics, news, on everything, really. And blogs are changing the way we do news. There's no doubt about it.I check several blogs a day. Some on politics, some on technology and some journal blogs written by my friends. It's become part of my daily routine, like reading the paper in the morning.
So what are blogs? Turns out that although 8 million have created blogs, 62 percent of Americans who use the Internet don't know what a blog is. That's according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And in an age where blogs are fundamentally changing the nature of news, we thought we'd tell you the story about the beast of blogging.
In case you're part of that 62 percent, blogs are online journals. They are places on the Internet where anyone can have a voice about, well, just about anything. If that definition seems vague, that's because the nature and rules of blogging are being defined more and more every day.
Blogs have been credited with bringing attention to news that the mainstream media (called by bloggers "MSM") is slow to report, or would otherwise ignore. Think of the cases of Sen. Trent Lott, CBS' Dan Rather, CNN's Eason Jordan, among many others. But blogs don't only bring attention to comments made by those in the spotlight; they can also affect your privacy. How?
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Article comments
1 - sherrymarie
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9214&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported
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The above links should be used for a story about the psychiatrist who
was fired for exposing malpractice which resulted in the deaths of
children. See www.drugawareness.org for more info. Another source:
www.mindfreedom.org
The drugawareness site changes its links, so I can't send the link to
"state fired shrink for exposing abuse." Scroll down the first page on
www.drugawareness.org to see that story.
www.mindfreedom.org site has a story about the American Psychiatric
Association bragging about how they kept the "tmap" scandal out of the
mainstream media.
2 - Phillip Winn
The above links should be links, not text barf. :-)
3 - Georgio
I saw the Nightline show last night and what bothers me is I can't find away to search for bloggers on a certain subject and how do we know if they are from the left or right ..will someone please help me..Georgio
4 - Steve Rhodes
I'm not sure what the first two comments have to do with Nightline. If you want to contact Nightline, there is info on their site.
Technoratti is one place to search blogs. The best way to tell the politics of a blog is to read it. You can also find other similar leaning blogs from their blogrolls.