The September 4 issue of the New Yorker includes a letter from DU contributor Patricia Goldsmith, who does a fine job of positioning bloggers as important contributors to the national dialogue and citizen advocates working to push underpublicized issues into the discussion. She also mentions DUer Brad Friedman's work in the area of election fraud. Kudos!
In designating original reporting as the standard by which Internet journalism should be judged, Nicholas Lemann overlooks the very real accomplishments of bloggers ("Amateur Hour," August 7th & 14th). During the run-up to the war in Iraq, there were stories, in both print and broadcast media, contradicting the Administration's claims about Iraq's connection to Al Qaeda and its possession of W.M.D.s. But these stories were intermittent and often languished on back pages -- except in the left-wing blogosphere. Similarly, the regular press dismissed bloggers' accusations of voter fraud following the 2004 election as conspiracy theories. By posting reporting by professional journalists like Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wassserman alongside posts from e-voting activists and whistle-blowers, citizen editors like Brad Friedman of the BradBlog have raised public and media awareness of the extremely compromised state of our voting system.
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