New Blogs

by Matt Stoller, Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 06:40:15 PM EST

Welcome to a few new blogs.

An Open Letter to the Washington Post

An Open Letter to Tim Russert

These blogs are designed to be places where readers can give feedback to media outlets that don't allow their readers to effectively congregate.  The internet opens up remarkable avenues for discourse.  Tim Russert doesn't have an 'ombudsman' or a space for discussion, so we built one.  The Washington Post does have an ombudsman, but it has been discredited by their actions.

These aren't new campaigns, they are simply new spaces for discussion.  Meanwhile, there's great stuff on Open Letter to Chris Matthews.

Tags: Media (all tags)

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hit 'em where it hurts
When do you just start boycotting the traditional media? Cancel your newspaper subscription.
by Carl Nyberg 2006-01-23 07:34PM | 0 recs
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Pat Crowley
Pat Crowley, a writer of Northen KY Politics blog, writes for the Enquirer and has done a lot of censoring.  Now you have to be a team member in order to post there.  I'm not a team member so I cannot reply to anything there.

Also, I have video of the latest SNL Digital Short called Young Chuck Norris.

by kydem 2006-01-23 07:42PM | 0 recs
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Re: hit 'em where it hurts
A boycott of the Post doesn't make sense.
by Matt Stoller 2006-01-23 08:42PM | 0 recs
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Re: hit 'em where it hurts
But pressuring the cable companies to allow viewers to subscribe to cable without subsidising CNN, MSNBC might.
by misscee 2006-01-24 02:45AM | 0 recs
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an open letter to the washington post?
great idea, matt!  who's writing it?

also, "young chuck norris" was a scream.

by skippy 2006-01-23 09:58PM | 0 recs
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Tim Russert
Tim Russert asks Obama about Belafonte because they both are black, and the white clowns such as these wonder as to why he should be held responsible for the actions of his ancestors...

http://www.therealitycheck.org/StaffWriter/dhawkins012106.htm

If all blacks are the same, all whites are the same, isn't it?

by Boilermaker 2006-01-24 05:22AM | 0 recs
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Good Idea
If the Washington Post "Free" discussion forum and comments are really going to be at the mercy of the whims of the ombudsman, well then it's a great idea to set up an unregulated discussion forum where ideas cannot be censored.
by BringtheFight 2006-01-24 11:40AM | 0 recs

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