Dowbrigade Dances for Joy

Posted on July 10, 2004 by glasscastle

Against
all odds and from the distant shores of South America, the Dowbrigade
somehow got his shit together long enough to apply for one of the limited and
highly sought after blogger slots at the Democratic National Convention.
After reading several articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about
the big-time bloggers who had applied, we  put our chances of being
selected a bit below Ralph Nader’s.

Imagine our surprise when sorting through one of several big cardboard
boxes of correspondence which had accumulated in our absence to find
a letter from the convention organizers. So thin, one sheet, shades of
college applications, a rejection letter for sure. But no! This
letter advised that we have been awarded a full floor pass for the duration
of the convention. The Dowbrigade will be blogging the convention!

 

(rare file photo of Dowbrigade dancing)

Our first thought was relief that, being the party currently out of
power, the Dems apparently lacked access to our full file. Our next
thought was our obligation to you, dear readers, to provide a kind of
coverage
you won’t be getting anywhere else.

Then, Thursday night at the Berkman Blogger’s Meeting, we discovered
that no less than FOUR bloggers intimately involved with the Berkman
Center were among the select few.  Jay Rosen, a recently named
Berkman fellow, who immediately posted a brilliant
and insightful analysis of the evolving role of the political
conventions and the press coverage thereof on his blog, PressThink;
Dave Winer, who brings the power and inimitable style of Scripting
News, and our blogging buddy Rick Heller, maestro of the Open
Source Novel and the Swing Voter Weblog. There will be a whole contingent of Berkmanites working hard to crack the case.

We are as excited about this as we have been about anything since Lisa
Sattinger invited us for a sleep over when her parents were out of town,
and we were only 15 then. The possibilities for fun and fireworks are
intoxicating. Can we loosen the stranglehold the major media have exercised
over the political process for over 50 years? We’re sure going to try.

A sample from Jay Rosen:

Now come the bloggers, a tiny group added to the mix, who with all their
faults and shenanigans have one great advantage. They aren’t a part
of the failed regime in political convention coverage. They don’t have
to pretend it has the right narrative. They’re free to look with fresh
eyes and re-decide what a convention actually is, knowing where the
dead zones are.

from PressThink

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13 Responses to Dowbrigade Dances for Joy

  1. Carly says:
    July 10, 2004 at 4:54 pm

    Re Jay Rosen’s “brilliant and insightful analsys”: I dunno, is it just me?, but I think the emperor has no clothes. Jay Rosen is in serious need of an editor to focus and “consise-ify” his writing. You’d think he be better at this, being a *journalism* professor. Even if his writing is “brilliant,” the blog is not the proper venue for it. I just find it too long and boring to justify plowing through to get the few good ideas buried within.

  2. Michael J. says:
    July 12, 2004 at 11:16 am

    Congratulations at getting the credentials.

    I’ll be a delegate (Dean) myself, and hope to see you there. I won’t pretend to be in agreement with some of what you’ve been saying in the primary season, particularly your yearning to be swept up by the True Cause, your need for “The One.” That kind of need for a Leader has a bad history….

    I’ll be easy to spot; look for the longhaired, bearded fellow in the Wisconsin delegation with the orange cowboy hat…

    and pants…

    and shirt…

    und so weiter.

    —
    Orange Mike
    (who was on the *other* Michael Feldman’s show [yes, I won; I also left him speechless])

  3. Seth Finkelstein says:
    July 14, 2004 at 7:52 am

    Aha! They must have confused you with the *other* Michael Feldman!

    Well, congrats, milk it for all it’s worth, I’m sure you will 🙂

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