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July 11, 2004

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Posted by Bill

Jeff Jarvis absolutely nails it regarding the DNCC blogger screw up. His conclusions at the end mirror my feelings exactly:

: I won't buy any excuses from the DNC until I see complete lists of:
1. Bloggers invited
2. Bloggers not invited
3. Bloggers disinvited.
Until then, we cannot know whether this was a matter of slant or space.
We demand transparency. That's what bloggers do. And we bloggers should be standing together to demand this information -- and also to demand that the DNC reinvite the disinvited bloggers. They wouldn't dare treat mainstream press that way. How dare they treat citizen journalists that way?

And it doesn't really matter what the cause is. Having f'ed up this badly, the thing to do is to fix it by inviting all the disinvited bloggers to assure that there is no exclusion on any basis and also to reveal the complete lists of bloggers so we can judge the DNC's process.

: And, by the way, the reason I don't buy the excuses from the DNC: The number of applicants has nothing to do with the space available. Surely, they sat down at the beginning and decided how many they could let in and what the criteria were. Simple logic.

RTWT.

Posted by Bill at July 11, 2004 01:25 AM | TrackBack (3)

Comments

Maybe they're counting on conservative-leaning bloggers to snipe, so they can point and say how vindictive/unfair/biased/hateful/crazy those conservative bloggers are.

Of course, I can't tell if that's giving them too much credit, or if it's another indication of the idiocy this move entails. It's bad idea jeans all over again.

Posted by: Zach at July 11, 2004 06:03 AM