JournoList: Inside the echo chamber
By MICHAEL CALDERONE * 3/17/09 3:59 AM EDT Updated: 3/17/09 9:33 AM EDT
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A group of journalists meet online.
Illustration by Matt Wuerker
For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.
Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
POLITICO contacted nearly three dozen current JList members for this story. The majority either declined to comment or didn’t respond to interview requests — and then returned to JList to post items on why they wouldn’t be talking to POLITICO about what goes on there.
But a handful of JList members agreed to talk for this story — if only to push back against the perception that the group is some sort of secret, left-wing cabal.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html
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More proof that the liberal media is alive and well....thriving....
and its existence is undeniable...
By MICHAEL CALDERONE * 3/17/09 3:59 AM EDT Updated: 3/17/09 9:33 AM EDT
Text Size:
A group of journalists meet online.
Illustration by Matt Wuerker
For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.
Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
POLITICO contacted nearly three dozen current JList members for this story. The majority either declined to comment or didn’t respond to interview requests — and then returned to JList to post items on why they wouldn’t be talking to POLITICO about what goes on there.
But a handful of JList members agreed to talk for this story — if only to push back against the perception that the group is some sort of secret, left-wing cabal.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html
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More proof that the liberal media is alive and well....thriving....
and its existence is undeniable...
