By Marsha Walton
CNN
Published on 7/23/2004
Excerpt:
“They are igniting a great deal of enthusiasm and energy among partisans, at least among some of the very political blogs out there,” said Howard Finberg, faculty member of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For the first time, the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention will credential a small number of bloggers to cover their nominating processes. Blogging was in its infancy during the 2000 campaign.
Just as TV coverage of the presidential race gained its power with the televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, Internet blogging seems to be coming into its own in 2004.
“I think we have to recognize that every media that comes along changes the shape and form of its predecessors,” Finberg said. “It doesn’t replace the previous form of communication, but it does provide another form of news and information. In the same way that the conventions have been changing, so has the media industry.”
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