Hillary's "Live-Blog" is Neither

Matt Lewis | October 31, 2007 2:35 PM

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.