A blogger broke Obama's "bitter voters" quote
Who broke Barack Obama's now famous 'bitter voters clinging to guns and
religion...' quote he made in San Francisco on March 11? 61-year old blogger Mayhill Fowler, who voluntarily blogs for the Huffington Post.
The 61-year-old blogger tore the curtain from the front window of a longtime political refuge - the high-end fundraiser - and the ensuing tumult from her story about the closed-to-the-press event shows how coverage of campaigns continues to be rewritten in the digital age.She did it with a recorder. Blogging/news reporting/journalism morph into the massive media reporting system and we still only see a tiny glmmer of its potential.
"What Fowler did was commit an act of journalism," said Marc Cooper, her editor at the Huffington Post and a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
Watching "a bunch of guys in pajamas" take down 60 Minutes in what was later to be know as Rather-Gate is what inspired me to start blogging in the first place.
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Imagine how history might be rewritten if bloggers and twitterers had reported events, private soirees and back room discussions as they occurred....
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