The day after I posted the Hayes story on the bluenc blog, things took off like a rocket.
BlueNC's website hits went from a daily average of 1300 to 38,000.
The story was picked up by numerous other blogs, HuffingtonPost and DailyKos probably being the biggest ones.
It was only a matter of time after that until the "regular" media caught wind of the story.
It made the Charlotte Observer twice and MSNBC reportedly interviewed Dale Cline, the publisher of the Concord Standard (if anyone can find video of this online, please let me know).
And finally my crowning achievement: Tom Delay's blog.
Meanwhile in the Hayes camp his spokeswoman (she's actually a girl in her early 20's), Carolyn Hern, said she did not attend the speech but that she has "no reason to doubt the accuracy of Hayes' initial quotes".
It's interesting how these bloggers can distort the news," Hern said.
If you can explain to me how publishing the exact quotes of someone (and they themselves saying those quotes are correct) is in any way distorting news, i'll buy you a beer.
So next time you want to break a national news story, keep your eye on those newspaper vending machines when you're out for a walk!
1 comments:
It was a hell of a catch, and I think that it highlights something that blogs do really, really well. As I understand it, the newspaper didn't have the story on its website. Because you caught it and presented it to a larger community, and because that community found the story to be of value, within a matter of hours the story was in front of the eyes of people all over the country.
There is no number of big media editors, and no room big enough to hold them, that could accomplish that like the blogosphere. Nice.
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