How much influence does Salon’s Glenn Greenwald wield within the White House?
When measuring a media outlet’s influence, the idea that the White House reads or listens to what you have to say would be a good indicator that your political sway reaches far beyond mere readership, but Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald has the distinction of being one of the few who can write something that results...
Did the White House Correspondents’ Association really snub World Net Daily?
Yesterday, the Washington Examiner reported that Arianna Huffington was extremely displeased with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the reason being that in its first year attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the Huffington Post had requested three tables for its guests and only received one. Huffington was so sure she’d receive the requested tables...
Why Adobe and Apple are bypassing traditional media outlets to wage war in the blogosphere
When Steve Jobs responds to a random person’s email — an event occurring more frequently of late — the sender is usually shocked that such a tech titan has reached into his mailbag to pluck his message from the ether and deem it worthy of a reply. But Greg Slepak had elicited an email from...
Will the iPad change book publicity?
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It almost always follows the obligatory question and answer session. The MC of whatever venue that is hosting a published author makes his way to the podium and announces that said author will be signing books in the lobby, the perfect segue to transform an inspired audience into inspired book buyers. It’s not uncommon...
As RNC faces donation problems, ActBlue raises record $10 million this quarter for Democrats
Earlier today, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin published one of what has become a series of posts about previous donors to the Republican National Committee who have sent back rejected donation solicitations to the RNC. Given the widely-reported scandals involving the misuse of RNC funds, it’s not surprising that Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl stated recently, “this...
Gizmodo editor not upset that Apple didn’t provide iPad for review
For a niche that has such strong competition among blogs, there’s no doubt that Gizmodo and Engadget are by far the kings of gadget news. Gizmodo alone receives several million pageviews a day and recently broke the news that Google’s Eric Schmidt and Apple’s Steve Jobs had met outside a cafe. So imagine the ...
How a law student used Twitter to pressure dozens of Glenn Beck’s advertisers into dropping their support
Angelo Carusone says he didn’t start his campaign to pressure advertisers into ditching Glenn Beck’s radio and Fox News show as an opposition to his politics — though he admitted that their views significantly differ — but rather he saw Beck’s rhetoric as distinct from other commentators. “For me, the real motivator was what he...
How progressive bloggers pressured NYT public editor into addressing Acorn “pimp” hoax
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Brad Friedman had heard from someone at Acorn that the New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt had scheduled a meeting with leaders of the anti-poverty organization, but Hoyt’s column that hit the web over the weekend still came as a surprise to the blogger. Friedman, who writes for the progressive Brad Blog,...
Conservative bloggers loved the CBO before they hated it
The Congressional Budget Office released it preliminary estimate of the Senate health care bill yesterday and found that the bill would reduce the deficit by $130 billion in the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years. Upon the report’s release, conservative bloggers and pundits began trying to discredit the CBO, saying...
Virginia blogger outs state attorney general as a birther
While listening to the audio, one finds it difficult to discern the identity of the person asking the questions, or the venue where the questions are being asked, but the person answering the questions is almost certainly Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
The anonymous questioner asks what can be done “about Obama and the birth certificate...
Facebook may sue Daily Mail over erroneous column: Bylined author didn’t even write it
News broke today that Facebook is considering suing the Daily Mail over false claims that an author created a fake profile of a young girl and was approached by dozens of older men wanting to meet for sex. The problem? The author, Mark Williams-Thomas, didn’t actually use Facebook, but some other social network.
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