DISQUS

AMERICAblog: No live-blogging of McCain and Obama from the LULAC conference for AMERICAblog - they refused to let us in

  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    I have a funny feeling this may become a trend, Joe. More and more the blogs are a huge threat to their little status quo system. This might be a little teeny weeny harbinger.
  • JoeSudbay · 1 year ago
    I think you're right, Bostonian. Doesn't bode well. I actually debated even writing about it, but figured the only way to change the system is to address it head on.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    If it truly is the wave of the future, barring blogging from events like
    this, we are now officially reaching to a fascist state. This is extremely
    upsetting. The net is the only place right now where one can get any real
    news or opinion which is not from Corporate Control Central. Now I wonder
    when ATT and Verizon begin filtering and censoring.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    the donuts will be flowing
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    Third world approach to media. Mugabe would be proud.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    LULAC = ?
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    LULAC doesn't want bloggers there. McCain wants his speech to be low profiled so the wingnuts won't throw a temper tamtrum.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    what a surprise.. the blogs being dissed by "traditional" media.. You need to take this straight to Obama and his team, and let them know that they need to support blogs 100%.
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    Americablog would have a better chance if it were a wholly owned subsidiary of GE or AOL.
  • mauro7inf · 1 year ago
    "Um, should I go to Office Depot and buy a laminating kit and fake one?"

    Absolutely not. As an official voice of AmericaBlog, an ID you make with a laminating machine can be perfectly real and official, as far as I know. I don't see why you and John can't just make pretty and official-looking AmericaBlog ID's modeled after some print journalist's card. There's absolutely nothing dishonest about that.