Hillary's "Live-Blog" is Neither
Oct 31, 2007 02:35 PM EST
Yesterday at 3:19, HillaryClinton.com's
Crystal Patterson wrote:
Join me here at 8:30 p.m. Eastern as we post live reports from the debate watch event with President Clinton, John Grisham and the winners of our debate watch contest. The debate begins at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight. Watch it on MSNBC.
Anyone foolish enough to believe they would be receiving any "inside information" or truly "live reports" was indeed naive. I couldn't find anything that could even be loosely defined as "live-blogging." Instead, what readers got was
PR propaganda which had probably been cleared by a dozen or so staffers before being published.
Of course, in fairness, this is why campaign blogs are rarely interesting. The best blogs tend to be daring, controversial, and a bit sardonic. Campaign blogs, by definition, are vanilla.
Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis is conservative writer and blogger based in Alexandria, VA.
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