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1 Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither ________ nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news.

2 Only blogger ________ made the New York Times Bestseller List.

3 To wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show ________) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record.

4 Bruce Ableson launched ________ in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online diaries.

5 In India, blogger Gaurav Sabnis resigned from ________ after his posts exposing the false claims of a management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to burn their IBM laptops as a sign of protest against him.

6 For the first time in the history of modern journalism, the financial and political goals of ________ are being analyzed in depth.

7 (See ________ and Wesley Clark.) Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party's MP Tom Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.

8 Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of ________, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.

9 A blog (a contraction of the term "web log")[1] is a type of ________, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

10 (See Daniel Drezner, ________ or Brad Setser.)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market, Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency?
  • during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov?
  • the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
  • WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
  • Owen Thomas, managing editor of New York City-based gossip and news blog Valleywag, writes most of the website's articles?
  • Wee Siew Kim, a Singaporean MP, had to apologise after scandal broke out involving an elitist blog entry made by his daughter?
  • Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?
  • developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
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