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I had not heard of some of the conservative blogs named in the article. I have a hard enough time keeping up with the lefty blogs. LOL
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I do wonder however, where some of the conservative bloggers get their notions about what we lefty bloggers are about. From the MassRight blog comes this curious comment:
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We too get most if not all of our news filtered through the Globe, Herald or AP (or rarely also left-biased sources like the ‘State House News’), or bloggers _outside_ of Massachusetts, when we should be getting it from the newsmakers themselves. I give the Democrats points for doing a moderately good job of feeding leftist bloggers news and newslet-style ideology-chunks, I would hope the Massachusetts Republican party might come around to the same conclusion.(emphasis mine)
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m not getting fed news or idelogy from anyone. I know that some GOPbloggers are used to cutting and pasting the talking points, but just because they do it doesn’t mean that we’re doing it too. I told MassRight as much, and asked them to cite examples of such lefty blogs, but as expected, they don’t publish comments in real-time, so it will be interesting to see what, if any examples they provide.
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BTW – congrats to BMG on the Globe mention. MassMarrier and I only got a mention in the Sentinel & Enterprise. đŸ˜›
Really I do. He’s kind of eccentric, but totally earnest, and original in his prose. He comes by here every now and then to chuck some stone tablets at us from on high… which takes courage, after all.
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As far as coordination with Dems… well, we’ve had some interviews, I guess, and the occasional (I mean, really occasional) press release.
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“Newslet-style ideology-chunks”? As I say, the prose is original … and I mean, who could possibly argue with it? “No, I have never passed on a ‘newslet-style ideology chunk’ on my blog!” It makes you sound crazy even to deny it.
If the Dems are feeding us news, they’ve left me out of the loop. I’m still trying to get them to use their blog on a regular basis — forget about them sending me things to talk about.
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I will say this, though, the Mass GOP either has stopped using its email list or kicked me off of it — I haven’t heard a peep out of them in months. The Mass Dems, on the other hand, never really used their list to begin with.
Their web site is more pathetic than the Mass Dems’, which is saying quite a bit. Their most recent “news update” is about six months old. And to view the site, you’d have no idea that Romney had announced he wasn’t running for Gov. I also find it hilarious that the party chairman works for Kerry Healey’s husband’s firm – yet insists in today’s article about Christy Mihos that there won’t be any favoritism shown toward Healey.
I don’t know what “newslet-style ideology chunks” he’s talking about, but it is true that we don’t all get our news just from the traditional press and out of state blogs.
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I, for one, have been pretty open about my role as someone who volunteers and sometimes works for campaigns, and blogs about those campaigns on Blue Mass Group. I often do blog about first-hand experiences and impressions based on those experiences. I blogged about the Second Middlesex candidates forum after attending it and taking notes, and as a result, BMG’s coverage was more complete than any of the newspapers. I also blogged about canvassing for Pat Jehlen in west Medford, and my impressions from there. And I posted about Pat Duffy running in Holyoke after meeting having her speak at an event I organized in Amherst.
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More recently, I griped to Mariposa about the lack of coverage of the 2nd Worcster special election, anywhere, and a week later she posted about a candidate after meeting him herself. I blogged about Claire Naughton both before and after her campaign hired me to make her web site. Blue Mass Group was the first web site or newspaper to publish a link to her web site, because I posted here right after I launched it.
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To some people, this may look like the Democratic party “feeding” us. To us, it looks like bloggers involved in actual politics, rather than just reading about it. Either way, it’s clear that we do have some firsthand, original reporting on the lefty blogs. Perhaps on the right, here in MA, there’s a bigger disconnect between the people doing politics, and the people reading and blogging about it.