…as his Netroots Coordinator.
But Republican politicos aren’t the only ones who are recruiting bloggers to work on their campaigns (see final paragraph of linked post).
The net result of this depends on your perspective. Some will say:
- This is good because it shows the importance of blogs, blogging etc to the political process. Readers can trust weblogs more than ever because they’re getting viewpoints so solid that candidates often hire the writers.
- Blogs can’t be trusted to give an attempt at stand-back analysis because they are so clearly tied in to specific partisan campaigns.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.