More Liveblogging from YKC07 - MSM and Blogs
By Martha Griffin on Aug 3, 2007 in Uncategorized
Mike Allen is the chief editior of the Politico and is saying that blogs make it harder for the MSM to ignore some stories. The audience is not real crazy about Mike Allen.
Now, onto the questions:
1. Saying that Glenn Greenwald (Salon) has flat outworked the traditional media. Asking how many staff and what budget the MSM has?
Jeff Carney (Time Magazine)- 15 staffers (says this is modest - not as big as they wish they were)
Politico - about 50 people on staff
2. What do editors and publishers think about bloggers?
Jeff Carney - managing editor of Time reads the blogs and is a huge proponent of journalists getting involved in them. Everybody’s attitude at Time is open.
3. What is the business model of the Politico? Feeder for talking heads on its broadcast properties? news online - radio will not feed into this. Mike Allen talks fast and I am missing some of his points. Maybe he is spinning?
4. Is strife between blogs and MSM a bad thing?
Jeff Carney - not all strife is bad. Doesn’t like personal attacks in the blogs that don’t help. He’s talking about a huge mistake he made on Clinton poll numbers and he was attacked unfairly by the “leftwing blogosphere” when the overall point he was making was correct. (umm, Lakoff just said in a session I was in that using “leftwing” automatically polarizes people.)
Politico (Mike Allen) - media can do better playing the referee roll better.
Politico has 50 people on staff? That’s interesting.
You also noted:
Hum. I limit my attacks on the MSM. But, if they just don’t “get” something (like people powered politics vs. Money Powered Campaigns, you’ve got to point that out, IMHO.
AWESOME liveblogging, btw.
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