Edwards Learns Blogs Can Cut 2 Ways

New York Times by John M. Broder | Feb. 9, 2007 (Special Report)

John Edwards learned the hard way this week of the perils of grafting the raucous culture of the Internet to the decidedly staider world of a presidential campaign.

Mr. Edwards announced on Thursday, after 36 hours of deliberation, that he would keep on his campaign staff two liberal feminist bloggers with long cybertrails of incendiary comments on sex, religion and politics. Full Story »

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 by Dale Penn - Feb. 9, 2007

This article points out the price one pays for speaking one's mind, and not minding one's words on the blogosphere. It is harder to do a mea culpa when it's in writing. Social mores for this media are being defined by situations like these.

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