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 Bob McInnis - Feb. 10, 2007

Sound reporting on the new media impact on conventional processes. The Simon Rosenberg quote "“This is all being made up as we go along,” could as easily refer to the content of blogs as to how difficult it will be to apply old campaign rules to new media campaigns.

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