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| 2006-06-05 |
| OK. Blogs like this look great and are starting to draw a lot of people away from the liberal MSM. So much so that many people are now saying they ignore MSM and get their news from the "internet". But when are blogs really going to start hurting MSM? When are blogs that are successfull like this one and many others going to start going after MSM advertisers? Where their REAL bread and butter comes from? |
| Posted by:Gromosh Elminegum5705 |
| #5 The MSM committed suicide. The only reason they aren't dead yet is because there are still lots of people who aren't online yet. While it's true that the blogs feed off the MSM reporting - when the money comes to the blogs, the good reporters will make their money independently on the internet. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-05 23:53 |
| #4 Chuck, I'll dispute that statement. More and more digging out the facts behind the news (sometimes called investigative reporting) is being done by blogs. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-06-05 20:59 |
| #3 GE5705, did you have in mind something like this: Conservative Blog Advertising Network What you don't mention is that there is very little original reporting done by blogs - most blogs comment on stories appearing in old media. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2006-06-05 19:26 |
| #2 What I ment by going after their advertisers, was to find a way to lure that money away from MSM to blogs. I think there needs to be a confederation of blogs that will offer advertisers a good price compared to MSM and all members of that confederation will allow a small page space on one side for their ad. That space can be a rotating banner that rotates from one ad to another and appears on all the blogs. What you need now is for a bunch of blogs to select someone to represent them and they get a small cut and send the rest of the ad proceeds to the bloggers. |
| Posted by: Gromosh Elminegum5705 2006-06-05 19:07 |
| #1 I truly have no idea about all that "stategic angle", I'll let that to people more informed and well-thought than me. All I know is that msm are a thing of the past for me (well, I still watch teevee the morning), and that the internet, mostly blogs (but also jewish media, free-market, conservative or rightwing websites or forum), is used for "re-information", IE bypassing the msm bias, and trying to find something perhaps not truly "objective" (as I like my websurfing partisan), but which I deem as much more faithful to the conclusions I've come to on my own. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-05 16:02 |