{"id":55,"date":"2004-09-26T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=55"},"modified":"2004-09-26T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T19:22:12","slug":"political-bloggers-in-nytimes-mag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/political-bloggers-in-nytimes-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Bloggers in NYTimes Mag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/26\/magazine\/26BLOGS.html\">A wistful almost sad close up look at political bloggers is in today&#8217;s NYTimes mag.<\/a> Among the revelations: <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/\">Wonkette <\/a>used to write for suck.com when it didn&#8217;t suck and she was hired to be the character wonkette. Bloggers like other writers are often not-so-social creatures with axes of various kinds to grind. <\/p>\n<p>But the other thing worth noticing is that the article focuses entirely on Democratic bloggers. The article is pre-Republican convention and definitely pre-Memogate. It shows a blogger-triumphalism of a different kind. Already blogs are being touted as a Conservative tool instead of Liberal one. Did things change so quickly or is our polar political drift going to show more wild swings between left and right as each organizing tool or media outlet gets a moment in the ink or electrons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wistful almost sad close up look at political bloggers is in today&#8217;s NYTimes mag. Among the revelations: Wonkette used to write for suck.com when it didn&#8217;t suck and she was hired to be the character wonkette. Bloggers like other writers are often not-so-social creatures with axes of various kinds to grind. But the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}