The Stamp Story Won't Go Away

Larry Johnsonrude at the Edmonton Journal blogs about Gordon Stamps fall from grace due to blogging. Larry sez:

As part of their election strategy, politicians and their handlers started the campaign viewing blogs as a magic bullet for getting their unfiltered message directly to voters. Instead, they have become a source of embarrassment.
Obviously, blogs are being read. Problem is, they aren’t necessarily being read by the voters for whom they are intended. Rather, they are being closely scrutinized by the writers’ political enemies looking for dirt And they're not finding any shortage. That’s the trouble with something as democratic as the Internet. It doesn’t impose the discipline needed for fighting an election. There is a maxim in journalism that we writers need editors to protect us from ourselves. The same can be said about political operatives.


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