John Edwards fires, fires and rehires, or doesn't fire bloggers
An update on my post "Social conservative attacks Edwards bloggers."
The Edwards campaign has not officially responded. But Salon suggested the bloggers may have been fired. Meanwhile Chris Cillizza noted the difficulty of hiring anyone whose every political opinion had been cached on the Internet. But the prize for best insight and analysis goes to Glenn Greenwald, who pointed out controversial remarks made by a blogger for the John McCain campaign.
This point is important. McCain's blogger didn't get his candidate in hot water is because he reportedly concealed the relationship. Edwards, on the other hand, offered America honesty. And it appears America may make him regret it.
The Edwards campaign has not officially responded. But Salon suggested the bloggers may have been fired. Meanwhile Chris Cillizza noted the difficulty of hiring anyone whose every political opinion had been cached on the Internet. But the prize for best insight and analysis goes to Glenn Greenwald, who pointed out controversial remarks made by a blogger for the John McCain campaign.
This point is important. McCain's blogger didn't get his candidate in hot water is because he reportedly concealed the relationship. Edwards, on the other hand, offered America honesty. And it appears America may make him regret it.
Labels: Amanda Marcotte, blogging and blogs, John Edwards, Melissa McEwan, President 2008
1 Comments:
Maybe this just points out the problems of hiring bloggers without any control over those bloggers' message in the first place. Once you openly hire someone they DO represent you in the eyes of the public as your employee. Putting yourself in the position of bearing responsibility wthout exercising authority usually turns out to be a mistake.
The fact that other politicians have hypocritically protected themselves by hiding their connections with controversial bloggers doesn't really help Edwards out here, does it?
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