Sunday, March 20, 2005
Klein: There's no sense in ignoring the "blogosphere"
Source: USA Today Here's another article about CNN's "Inside the Blog" feature on Inside Politics. "Inside the Blog," which kicked off Feb. 14, is the first daily segment on cable or network TV dedicated to people whose reporting and opinions appear on the Web. Below are some quotes from the article:
"We want to demystify blogging," Klein says. "We want to peel back all those layers and also do a reading of the blogs that our audience doesn't have the time to do."
Klein chose Inside Politics for the segment "because obviously so much of the high-profile bloggers have a political bent on one side or the other," and coincidentally, he also had decided that there was little room for shoutfests on CNN talk shows.
"Any blogger who has been asked to appear on a show gets very excited about it, regardless of the show, and they love the mainstream media attention,"CNN blog reporter Jacki Schechner says. Her segment "tries to explain what the political blogs are talking about. We try to take some from the right, the center and the left to give a full picture."
Woodruff says that "not being a child of the Internet, I confess I was skeptical when Jon first suggested the segment. I viewed the blogs as pure opinion, no reporting. But I've come to see the segment as a tool for getting at a new, unpredictable and increasingly influential place on the political landscape."
But, she says, "the one thing I'd like to see us do more of is explain who the bloggers are. We could tell more about who they are and where they get their information. The only thing stopping us from doing that now is time."
# posted by ATN @ 10:00 PM 
