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Is it Drudge? (none / 0)

Could it all be due to Matt Drudge? He seems to have been the intermediary in the forgery flap. If the mainstream media all read Drudge looking for the next Lewinsky scoop, and Drudge posts stuff from FreeRepublic, then that's practically a hotline.
by corax on Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 03:43:05 PM EST

Re: Is it Drudge? (none / 0)

Well DailyKos (in terms of traffic & concentrated effort and expansion) is becoming the FreeRepublic of the right. I think you'll see with the platform extensions that are planned there, that it becomes even more of a community site.

There is no Drudge of the left. But what we might do is get all the scoop blogs on the left together, maybe even bet Atrios, Pandagon, and BOPNews on Scoop, and do a SSO that starts linking the communities together much more strongly.

I don't think we are going to win by replicating the right, we have to think of ways to leapfrog them.

by Jerome Armstrong on Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 05:09:31 PM EST
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Several Stories from Daily Kos have migrated... (none / 0)

...to the "real" media.  A (apparently false) story about Henry Hyde being in poor health wound up in the Chicago Sun Times.  They got quoted in the typewrite nonsense too by somebody.  The story where a freeper played a "joke" on somebody trying to find crash space in New York for the GOP convention was picked up by ABC.

by Geotpf on Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 06:34:06 PM EST
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DailyKos (none / 0)

I assume you meant "the FreeRepublic of the Left," but DailyKos isn't nearly as far left as FreeRepublic is far right. ThisModernWorld.com is much more liberal, but it also gets much less traffic than DailyKos (though it has had a few Drudge-like successes).

Fitting with Chris's "stickiness" meme, thismodernworld.com isn't a very "sticky" site - it doesn't even allow comments - and it goes Atrios one better by opening off-site links in new windows by default (Atrios requires you to check a box for this behavior), which makes clicking through much more convenient (especially for IE users) - when done, you just close the window and you're back at thismodernworld.com.

If you're always playing the fear card, it's a pretty good sign you're not playing with a full deck!
by Mathwiz on Wed Sep 15, 2004 at 12:16:55 PM EST
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