The blogger story is just great. Between the blogging world and YouTube, there may be a good deal less "successful" lying and distortion during elections. Three cheers for the technology and the good people who use it.
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Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
A graduate of Northwestern University, he was a reporter for newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas before joining the (now-defunct) Los Angeles Herald Examiner in 1983. Hired by The Times in 1989, he has worked in its Washington bureau since 1996 a perch providing him a close-up view of the impeachment of President Clinton, the government's response to 9/11 and the day-to-day wrangling of the two major parties.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
The blogger story is just great. Between the blogging world and YouTube, there may be a good deal less "successful" lying and distortion during elections. Three cheers for the technology and the good people who use it.
"The Internet and the Election: There is Something Happening Here"
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Posted by: Mitchell Aboulafia | June 20, 2008 at 09:27 PM