{"id":90918,"date":"2006-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2006\/11\/27\/the-blogosphere-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:12:36","slug":"the-blogosphere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2006\/11\/27\/the-blogosphere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"the-blogosphere\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Blogosphere<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">After emerging as a force in the 2004 presidential election\u2014and showing up some mainstream media mistakes on election night\u2014bloggers were raring to go Nov. 7. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">They were anticipating several issues. There was the impact of the Iraq war, anticipated ballot box debacles related to new technology, absentee mania and early allegations of voter fraud. Add to that, of course, were problems in the Exit Poll to watch for\u2014and early exit poll leaks to publish. CNN had even \u201chired\u201d a handful of bloggers to gather in one place for the night. If you have seen your new rival, CNN reasoned, hire them to come to your party.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">So what role did the bloggers play?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Less than might have been anticipated. There was unexpected calm at most polling places. The exit poll didn\u2019t leak. The blow dried TV thugs didn\u2019t blow any calls. There weren\u2019t even too many ghastly rhetorical gaffes to talk about by anchors or their MSM guests. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond personal musings, the bloggers on the night were caught shy of material. Doing little in the way of original reporting, strapped to their keyboards, the strengths of the blogs\u2014being a clearing house for leaks, monitoring gaps and errors in the mainstream press, and annotating the offerings elsewhere online\u2014did not come to the fore this night. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">We monitored six top-rated, self-contained blogs: Instapundit, Daily Kos, Andrew Sullivan\u2019s Daily Dish and Wonkette, and the Huffington Post (offering several blogs) and Drudge Report, (in addition to those on network and cable Web sites) from 2 p.m. through 11:30 p.m. EST. In addition, we monitored four political Web sites, described in the next section. <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Daily Kos<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Daily Kos,<\/strong> ranked 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in popularity by Technorati and run by 36 year-old <span style=\"color: #242424\">Markos Moulitsas Z\u00faniga out of Berkeley, Calif. would spend much of the day sharing <\/span><\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/daily%20kos%20senate%20thread%20listing.JPG\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"261\" height=\"261\" align=\"left\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">information he learned from the mainstream press, and lacing it with some of his own opinions. For those who wanted to follow the election via internet, it would amount to a pretty straightforward and up-to-the-minute rundown of results.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">In the early afternoon Kos was railing about voting machines. \u201c. . . not only do they damage the integrity of our democracy, but they give losing campaigns an excuse to grandstand<span> <\/span>. . .\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">By early evening, he was sharing what he had learned from trolling the Web, mainly the MSM. Headlined \u201cHouse Update or \u201cSenate Races Thread followed by a number. The posts were long lists of the called races along with whether it was a pick-up or hold. Within these, Kos linked to separate pages on his blog for key races by region and by house. The race tallies were updated every few minutes throughout the night. Users, though, had to put faith in Kos because these margins appeared with no sourcing information whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Some of these were also fairly stream of consciousness<strong>. <\/strong>\u201cWoo hoo! Hall wins NY-19\u201d at 9:58 PST, and \u201cMO is looking great, and MT is looking good.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">And there was plenty that was just self-referential. \u201cSay hello to Sen. Claire McCaskill!\u201d And as the day comes to a close, Kos ends with, \u201cI\u2019m seeing double. Literally. Long, long night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, it was news, second hand and unattributed, but filtered through the very genuine consciousness of an excited liberal. <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Wonkette<span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/wonkette%20sherwood%20strangling%20post.JPG\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"209\" height=\"282\" align=\"right\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonkette, the self-styled \u201cD.C. Gossip Page\u201d now edited by Alex Pareene, is often more concerned with offering wit and sarcasm than news. It would set out this day to collect exit poll leaks, word of voter fraud and machine breakdowns. As time wore on, it would become increasingly frustrated they didn\u2019t materialize.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSend Us Leaked Exit Poll Reports!,\u201d it would call out at 2 p.m. EST<span> <\/span>\u201cYou will see and hear the secret information, and you must <em>send it to Wonkette. <\/em>Send your info from a Yahoo or Gmail account. You don\u2019t want to get killed!\u201d and then, \u201cWe want your best disenfranchisement stories! There\u2019s already to \u2018ol name-switching going on, but that\u2019s standard fare by now . . .\u201d <span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">As it waited, Wonkette filled in with comedic headlines: \u201cDon Sherwood Nearly Strangles Voting Machine: Our favorite mistress-strangling Pennsylvania congressman went to his polling place today and, like most old people, had no idea how to cast his vote. . . .\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">By early evening, Wonkette<strong>, <\/strong>was getting frankly pretty ticked off that no one was leaking it any exit poll data. Well, \u201cYou ***** didn\u2019t send us any stolen exit polls. We even went on \u201cTalk of the Nation\u201d with Arrianna to specifically demand exit poll leaks. And what do we get?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">At around 7 p.m., it offered a list of race margins but prefaced it with the qualifier: \u201cWe have no ***** idea if this is accurate, our guess is \u201cnot very.\u201d And later \u201cIn Case You\u2019re Foolish Enough to Check us for \u2018Real\u2019 News.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>[Fox News]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Wonkette ended the day with \u201cCBS Relying on Data Way More Accurate Than Exit Polls.\u201d<strong> <\/strong>And with photos of two HI winners wearing leis, confirms \u201cThe candidate with leis <em>always<\/em> win. Charlie Cook said that. Also, big gold chains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Instapundit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Glenn Reynolds, the conservative Tennessee law professor who manages Instapundit, has a more serious minded agenda than several bloggers monitored. He was <\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/Instapundit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"132\" align=\"left\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">invited to the CNN blog party but had had to decline because of family obligations. (CNN supplied him with a \u201cmac-mini-based Webcam\u201d so he could join remotely but technical mishaps at CNN made that impossible.)<span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Blogging from his own home, Reynolds spent the early afternoon hours letting his readers know where he thought they could go for good, alternative information throughout the night. Pajamas Media has \u201cloads of election coverage,\u201d he posted at 3:05 and at 3:32 p.m., N.Z. Bear \u201chas set up an election results tracking page that very cool,\u201d and \u201cJohn Fund offers an hour-by-hour guide.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Thus early on, at least, Instapundit was less a destination than a traffic advisor.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">By 5 p.m., Reynolds had posted links to Bill Bradley\u2019s report from Schwarzenegger headquarters, the Wall Street Journal\u2019s round up of the blogs, blogging at U.S. News, reader\u2019s posts, new data at RealClearPolitics, \u201cMalkin on Fox on the blogosphere,\u201d and \u201ca round up of bloggers predictions, from Wizbang.\u201d Reynolds did a little commentary himself, such as the post at 9:05 criticizing Bill Kristol\u2019s diagrams on Fox News, but mostly stuck to his role as information filter. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo matter who wins tonight, Nick Gillespie tells Richard Miniter that America will probably lose;\u201d he would post around 10 p.m. \u201cMark Steyn is liveblogging the elections;\u201d \u201cOver at milblogs, Greyhawk is blogging the Iraq-war record of candidates . . .\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Reynolds, incidentally, never was able to make a virtual presence on CNN because of their technical problems. Nor was he able to watch any of Pipeline, and his personal issues with it are part of the post. \u201cI think the problem\u2019s on their end,\u201d he writes.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Just after midnight EST, Reynolds posted Jim Lindgren\u2019s projection of a Webb victory in Virginia and then wrapped up the night with a link to observations on the night from National Review Online blogger John Podhorestz:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/instapundit.observation.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"196\" align=\"absmiddle\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Andrew Sullivan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">On The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan, the iconoclastic self-described conservative this night would offer readers personal insights or juicy tidbits when possible\u2014primarily through reports from mainstream media. But early on, he seemed more interested in sharing his feelings about taking in the day.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">He began the afternoon with a long excerpt from Leonard Cohen\u2019s song \u201cDemocracy,\u201d (as well as a Utube video of Don Henley singing it) which \u201ccaptures all my hopes for today.\u201d That was followed at 4:07 P.M. by \u201cThe Quote of the Day III\u201d from Thomas Merton\u2019s book, Contemplative Prayer.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Around 7 p.m., Sullivan was linking readers to an exit poll story from ABCNews.com at 6:48 EST and one about the mood of voters from the AP at 6:56. The first race figures come in at 7:03 from the New York Observer\u2019s blog, The Politicker, with the apt qualifier \u201cEarly exit polls are the least reliable. But if they pan out, it\u2019s a bloodbath.\u201d<span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">At 8:27: \u201cI Just heard Michael Barone say about Indiana that (from memory): \u201cThe Republican turnout machine may have worked very well but some of their voters may not have voted Republican.\u2019 . . Wouldn\u2019t it be heavenly if Karl Rove turned out large numbers of voters who went on to vote Democratic or Independent?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">By 10, Sullivan and other readers celebrated the Santorum defeat with such guest posts as \u201c\u2019Man, Santorum looks like he really needs some meth to throw away\u2019\u201d and \u201c\u2019As much as I loathe Rich Santorum\u2019s positions, it is heartbreaking to watch his teenage son cry behind him curing the concession speech.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Drudge Report<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">And what of Matt Drudge, the now senior conservative Web source for leaks and rumors, who has the ability to dramatically drive traffic to any site to which he links? <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Drudge this night served primarily as a quick reference portal for those who wanted links to stories or sites that would give them information about the day, but he offered nothing that citizens could not have accessed on their own from the mainstream press, and less in the way of links to news than they might have gotten from aggregators.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/drudge.JPG\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"364\" height=\"230\" align=\"left\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">At 6:30 he posted two links to preliminary exit poll data. At 7 p.m. he linked to CNN and MSNBC projections. At 7:30 there was a good find\u2014Rolling Allen and Webb results with link to the Virginia board of elections to learn more. Unfortunately, though, the link was slow and by 8 pm., perhaps because he was driving so much traffic there, he had to pull it down. After that, he stuck to posting totals from that race, and links to cable.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond that, Drudge linked to the latest AP story from political reporter David Espo, but this was far less than one might have gotten from a site such as Yahoo or Google.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">In short, Drudge\u2019s skill at trolling the Web, finding good stuff and linking to it efficiently for people, appears to be pressured on an evening when many sites with more resources and flexibility at creating specialized pages are focused on the same task.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The lone wolf nature of some of these blogs may be at some disadvantage when everyone is looking in the same palace, at the same thing, especially on a night when the official results are the story.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">If most blogs are one person\u2019s view of the world, The Huffington Post<strong>,<\/strong> a liberal California-based site, is a kind of celebrity election night cocktail party.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/Huffington.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" align=\"right\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The site has two components\u2014a home page of news aggregated from wire services and a separate page of blogs from various contributors.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The news home page\u2014which would open the afternoon with a story about Bush\u2019s legacy, pieces on voting machine problems, predictions by Bob Novak and video linking George Allen\u2019s senate campaign to voter intimidation\u2014remained fairly static throughout the evening. Much of it, such as a link to a blog post about conservative Laura Ingraham telling voters to tie up the Democratic voting help lines\u2014was designed to monitor or embarrass conservatives.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The blog page, filled with contributions from well-known mostly but not exclusively liberal voices, would be a combination of things that ranged from the nasty to the more creative. Much of it seemed marked by haste.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/legacy\/huffpost.JPG\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"394\" height=\"345\" align=\"left\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., there was little activity. When it did come more to life, at 5:30 EST\u2014earlier than most other blogs\u2014visitors could grab some preliminary Senate exit poll margins, pulled \u201c(With a Grain of Salt)\u201d from swingstateproject.com along with a color-coded map of poll closing times across the country. That was followed by a long post from Carl Pope, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, about Richard Pombo\u2019s re-election campaign for the House seat in Pleasanton, C.A. and the Sierra Club\u2019s efforts there, as well as voting debacles in Ohio and New Mexico. Pope signed off with, \u201c<span>My final plea: Remember your great aunt in Nevada? The one who always means to vote but is a bit forgetful? Give her a call to remind her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">The heaviest blogging of the night came from animation writer and producer Bob Cesca who wrote in inside lingo that was at times much harsher and personal than anything one might find in the far more polite MSM. At 8:40 p.m. EST he posted, &#8220;Let\u2019s Play \u2018Find a Job for Katherine Harris.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Huffington herself weighed in with \u201cHowever the night goes, one thing you\u2019re definitely not going to want to miss: Katherine Harris\u2019s concession speech. We predict it will become an instant YouTube classic. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">At 10 p.m., Author Danielle Crittenden, another frequent contributor that night, scripted most posts as memos from Tony Snow to President Bush. Typical were such remarks as \u201cDid someone change the channel up there from Fox to MSNBC? I understand your concern right now (and am sorry it\u2019s past your bedtime!) . . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">Huffington\u2019s posts veered wildly with her different personas. Sometimes she sounded like a nasty gossip columnist. \u201cOn CNN, the rotund Bill Bennett and the Gaunt James Carville are looking like the political punditry equivalent of Laurel and Hardy \u2013 or the Before and After pics of a gastric bypass surgery ad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal wp-block-paragraph\">At other times, she was a political insider, such as when she posted about her congratulatory phone conversation with Sherrod Brown. She told him, she reported, \u201chow great it is to have an economic populist who both understands what\u2019s the matter with Kansas and is unambiguously against the war in Iraq. . .\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blogosphere After emerging as a force in the 2004 presidential election\u2014and showing up some mainstream media mistakes on election night\u2014bloggers were raring to go Nov. 7. They were anticipating several issues. There was the impact of the Iraq war, anticipated ballot box debacles related to new technology, absentee mania and early allegations of voter 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