Citizen journalist

Kate Soglin is the newest reporter to cover the presidential race. So far, she has discovered the job is "as fun and satisfying as buying Manolo Blahniks at a seventy percent off sale and eating pancakes right afterward. ... You don't need to be a pundit to cover politics. You just need to look cute and ask questions and have a camera to record stuff."

Soglin took her probing questions to the California Democratic convention. She learned from a political consultant that a well-run campaign needs to come from the bottom up, not the top down. For some reason, Soglin heard him say she needed to have her top down and her bottom up. She then headed to Malibu, just like Barbie. CitzenKate.

In this instant meta world, it only took about three seconds for someone to report on Soglin herself, and about nine seconds for a blog posting of the Soglin reporting to appear on another blog reporting on other blogs.

Spencer Critchley noticed Soglin at the Democratic convention, and said she "prefaced her questions for candidates with variations on 'I don't know a single thing about any of this.' She managed to both embody and mock the airheadedness of young citizens manqué as she helped them discover the non-me world, while also poking at the self-importance of Citizen Kane-style Big Media."