Not sure where they picked it up, but yesterday Editor & Publisher covered the planned Guest Blogging duties here of Tribune Media Services’ Bob Koehler for the upcoming BRAD BLOGathon. Their quickie item on it is right here.
This one is difficult for me to write about as I’m the main beneficiary of the effort and yet have not been in on much of the actual planning of the event (see this latest guest blog from Winter Patriot with more details including other notable Guest Bloggers scheduled for the event), but I’m glad that E&P picked up on the matter since I think the effort is actually newsworthy. Not so much the actual coverage of a fundraiser for this blog, but the general idea of readers organizing to raise funds for the Independent/Alternate Voices they appreciate as a counter to the Corporate Media.
I know that Dr. Steve Viele (one of the main ringleaders in the effort) has mentioned to me that he hopes this will serve as a model for other blogs out there, and I hope that he’s right. Advertising and donations throughout the course of normal daily blogging here only go so far to cover the costs for the time and effort this gig now takes. Very few, if any, of us bloggers have major corporate sponsorship, and that’s probably a good thing. But then how do we continue to do the important work that needs to be done without regular sponsorship or subscriptions if we can’t pay our bills?
Don’t know if Dr. Steve’s model will work or not (the Blogathon is scheduled for the weekend of July 9, 10 & 11) but I think it’s worth watching, and I hope that other blogs and blog readers keep an eye on it if only to see if they may be able to organize similar efforts for those other bloggers out there who find themselves in the same position/predicament that I do.
It seems there are a lot of folks — political players with lots of access to money — who complain about the bias and laziness of the Corporate Media. Many of them are more than willing to toss tons of bucks to Political Candidates every two or four years. But when it comes to opening their pocketbooks to support the work of the folks who are actually in the trenches every day trying to counter the Corporate Media Bias on a daily basis, those big money players are nowhere to be found.
If those monied folks who toss $50/month or more to their Cable Company without batting an eye realized how important even half of that amount would on a monthly basis to folks like the bloggers on the ground, there would be a lot more of us, and we’d have the resources to do alot more of this work…Anyway, sorry to natter on…I just hope the effort makes a difference. For me, yes, but even more so for so many others out there like me who are trying, against all odds, to do similar work. To that end, don’t forget our friends at RAW STORY continue their ongoing fundraiser through tomorrow, and yes, our own PayPay Link is always open.
Hey! Three cheers for E&P!!! For all the reasons you mentioned, but also: live blogging with Bob Koehler was always going to be FANTASTIC … and the more people who know about it the better it’s going to get!
They might even hang around for the other live guest bloggers. Who knows?
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Looking forward to the Blogathon, hope it’s very successful.
Off Topic –
Some thoughts from Larry David via the Huffington Blog:
…If they hate Hollywood so much, maybe they should just start making their own movies and TV shows. In fact, we should just split into two different countries. Then, after our stem cell research gives us the cure for all these diseases, they’ll all be trying to get across the border for our medicine, but our minutemen won’t let them. And we’ll have a lot of minutemen. I think I’ll be a minuteman. “Sorry, but our scientists worked very hard to come up with a cure for Parkinson’s and there’s only enough medicine for our people. So beat it.”
Love him.
start writing down your questions to ask the guest bloggers everybody .its like an interactive newspaper if you like.don’t forget to invite your friends ,left,right or center.
GWB the 1,000,000 to 1 winner in 2004,yea right.
McKinney on evote hacking
VDRES
HAVA cost how much ?
As rove would say "theres one born every day"!
What fun –
A Rush Limbaugh article today "The Chief of the Patriotism Police".
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"If the Republicans were united on this and outspoken and confrontational, we would be in a stronger position and speeches like this last night would not even be necessary."
"The president never linked Iraq to 9/11. He never linked Saddam to 9/11. He linked Iraq to the war on terror. You know they know this. The left just can’t stand for the American people to be told it, because it upsets their whole apple cart of defeating Bush."
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Too funny – the many, many Rush listeners on Brad Blog, will now be more "confrontational". They will shout "the war is justified" from rooftoops.
OT – yes/no/maybe ???
Jail Looms for Judith Miller
From Editor & Publisher
By Joe Strupp
Published: June 28, 2005 11:30 AM ET
NEW YORK On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Judith Miller’s appeal of a contempt-of-court order for refusing to name a confidential source, The New York Times reporter launched her own Web site, http://www.judithmiller.org, which she contends will help her publicize the case.
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Whoops – missed a link in post #8
Judith Miller’s Website
Oops, Judith Miller dot org
Alison #3
Hahahahah! I read Larry David’s column yesterday and just howled! (Anybody who has battled insomnia must surely relate to his description!) Boy did I relate – on every angle!
Thanks for posting one of my favorite paragraphs from his piece. The whole thing is too much!
Thank you, Torqued! I seem to be html challenged on this thread. 🙂
Why doesn’t Brad Blog set up as a 501(c)3? It could help with the fund-raising side of things.
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E&P uses too many big words for me. I have trouble reading the menu at Denny’s and prefer to just point to the big pretty picture of the burger that I order.