Total Dismay

You Say It Best, When You Say Nothin’ At All

Posted in Politics, Internet by totaldis on the March 19th, 2008

I’m dedicating that musically inspired post title to FoxNews.com.

While it’s inaccurate to say that they ignored the Obama speech, I did feel reassured by the fact that it wasn’t on the landing page and it wasn’t above the jump on the politics page. The coverage that they did have focused on a few things that they pundits thought Barrack had not said.

…this just in… Fox actually removed the Hillary First Lady documents stuff that they had above the Obama speech review and now the top story on elections.foxnews.com is something about the New Black Panther Party endorsement being on Obama’s website. I guess it might be newsworthy. Independent groups can create member pages on the campaign website. Obama has been the most engaged candidate on the internet and allowing for lots of free expression has had some drawbacks. Ron Paul benefited from online support without over engaging them, which allowed him the luxury of distancing himself from extreme opinions and groups. Obama has fostered a lot of support and discussion and sometimes wrong thinking people bring attention to themselves while they are under his umbrella.

1 Comment »

  1. Well, considering the huge amount of support Obama has among younger voters, it’s no wonder he’s got so much support on the net. But all this flap over his Pastor seems to be a bit like a manufactured scandal to me.

    Comment by Ling — March 20, 2008 @ 6:43 am

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