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Blogs Take Center Stage at ONA Conference

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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