Sunday, December 3, 2006

Speaking truth to power equals big bucks

December 3, 2006
Op-Chart
New on the Web: Politics as Usual
By K. DANIEL GLOVER and MIKE ESSL

Excerpt

You might think that with the kind of rhetoric bloggers regularly muster against politicians, they would never work for them. But you would be wrong.

Over the past few years, bloggers have won millions of fans by speaking truth to power — even the powers in their own parties — and presenting a fresh, outsider perspective. They are the pamphleteers of the 21st century, revolutionary “citizen journalists” motivated by personal idealism and an unwavering confidence that they can reform American politics.
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