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June 27, 2004
| Credentialing Update

We’re still waiting to hear if we’ve been credentialed for the conventions. The DNC is blogging quite a bit about the role of blogs at the convention … see the official convention blog for more; just begin at the bottom and read up. I also see that Eric Schnure and Kos were on CNBC’s Bullseye talking about blogventioneering, so the meme continues to spread.

(Not that it counts for anything, but Michele and I were both offered that same interview spot and turned it down … neither of us are too keen on national television appearances. But it’s nice to know we were asked.)

I also read at the DNC blog that:

It is not the DNCC’s intention only to credential bloggers who tow the party line. We haven’t finished the credentialing process, but we’re still evaluating blogs, their communities, and what they write about. The quality and the topicality of the writing as well as the readership of the blog is relevant here, not necessarily one’s political viewpoint.

We hope so, and we hope they consider Command Post in context of the unique role the site has played as a news blog that happens to have an opinion page (Op-Ed), as opposed to an opinion blog that considers the news.

After all: how many other applicants can say they’ve had two sub-sites inducted into the Library of Congress MINERVA permanent historical collection (as we have with Iraq and GWOT)?



Posted by Alan at June 27, 2004 12:40 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Congratulations and I am still holding my breath. I am so dang proud of you guys!

Thanks for designing this site that way. It is proof that not everything has to be about the Benjamins(but it should be more about the Ben Franklins)… I know I am not alone in wishing you all the best. Get out there to the delegates and let them know how we are all a big part of the new democratic process! Get that message out! Don’t let the Deaniacs get all the glory!

TY again!

Posted by: tsu-nami® at June 27, 2004 01:05 AM

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