The woman who writes Wonkette needed no introduction and offered no apologies Saturday, telling her peers in online journalism that Web logs like hers have spurred a quicker response to breaking news
by major media outlets. Ana Marie Cox and others who maintain "blogs" were criticized after the Nov. 2 presidential election for posting exit polls throughout the day, a practice frowned upon in the
mainstream media because the data could sway the outcome.
Read the whole story at AP, via Editor and Publisher, November 13, 2004
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