Campaign Adsite Goes Live
Policlicks.com, the website offering political ads, went live this week. So far, this Greensboro-based business offers only local content, but the potential is national and even global. The ability to see candidates side by side is a powerful thing--contrast the rich content of Jeff Thigpen's message with the empty sloganeering of his opponent, Jon Wagstaff, and the race doesn't seem like a fair fight. Thigpen is a guy who really should have a weblog.
The Perils of a Monopoly Press
Greensboro has one daily newspaper, the dominant print organ for a region of several hundred thousand people. What a terrible situation. The political coverage is totally insufficient, with each local race getting one summary write-up. The more important the race, the later in the campaign its coverage--so that Tara Grubb's challenge to Howard Coble, for example, has received precisely NO ink so far, except in my opinion column. Grubb's weblog made national news, but the News & Record ignores it, as it has ignored the weblogs of Jim Capo and Jennifer Medlock. The cookie-cutter coverage is inadequate and serves the interests of entrenched power. Weblogs will help route around this obstacle, but it will take time.
Too Bad Only One is a Joke Headline
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