Libby Live
The mainstream media’s take on political bloggers is always entertaining. Take for instance this piece from the NYTimes on the live blogging of the Libby Trial.
Even as they exploit the newest technologies, the Libby trial bloggers are a throwback to a journalistic style of decades ago, when many reporters made no pretense of political neutrality. Compared with the sober, neutral drudges of the establishment press, the bloggers are class clowns and crusaders, satirists and scolds.
Class clowns? That is harsh. Now I can’t imagine anything more boring then live blogging a trial, so I headed over to firedoglake and checked out “Libby Live“. Here is just a piece of the nail biting journalism you are missing:
3:26
Something happened funny. The whole court room was laughing.
Walton: Good afternoon, Happy Valentine’s Day.
One of the jurors is saying something, but it’s not celar what. Everyone seems to have a smily face on. One of the jurors was reading a poem, apparently.
Walton: Thank you very much, you’ve been a very attentive jury and everyone appreciates it.
Cline: We’d like to read a stipulation.
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Obama has been catching some slack from the bloggers recently for dissing DailyKos with this quote:
“One good test as to whether folks are doing interesting work is, Can they surprise me?” he tells me. “And increasingly, when I read Daily Kos, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s all just exactly what I would expect.”
I couldn’t agree more.