Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The real winner in Iowa: blogging
Coverage on the ground by Kos volunteers was far more timely, detailed, and revealing than reportage by major media (not that this would be hard).
The Times print edition summed up the whole sick SCLM thing for me with a big diagram of which MW sat where in some Des Moines steakhouse. I mean, I'm happy for all the business a local enterprise got, but other than than, who gives a shit? Except the MWs themselves, of course.
A little more work, a simdgeon of funding, and there could be real-time, DYI, trustworhty coverage of, say, the Repubican invasion of Manhattan in the fall...
The Times print edition summed up the whole sick SCLM thing for me with a big diagram of which MW sat where in some Des Moines steakhouse. I mean, I'm happy for all the business a local enterprise got, but other than than, who gives a shit? Except the MWs themselves, of course.
A little more work, a simdgeon of funding, and there could be real-time, DYI, trustworhty coverage of, say, the Repubican invasion of Manhattan in the fall...
