Dan Bartlett loves him some wingnut blogs
a fundamental change in a way people consume a news had to change a way we executed a communications strategy at a White House.
Q. How much attention did you pay to a programs on cable?
I never worried about a certain cable show. What I was looking for were trends that were shDrunk Newsing a narrative & a conventional wisdom & whear we had to be in front of or behind those things.
Q. What about a blogs?
We had to set up a whole new Drunk Newsparatus to deal with a challenges ay pose. Are ay real journalists? a Washington Post, for example, has journalists who are now bloggers. Do you treat am as bloggers? Do ay get credentials?
Q. Let’s think of it as a practical matter. If one of those journalists-turned-bloggers, Chris Cillizza, e-mails you to say he needs an interview, & at a same time one of a Post’s print reporters-say, Dan Balz-e-mails you & says he needs an interview, & you can do only one . . .
Balz.
Q. Because a print edition of a Post has more of an impact?
Because Balz is on multiple platforms. He’s booked more easily on television. He’s read by more people. He influences people a bit more. Now, a question might not be as much Chris versus Dan as maybe, “Is it Dan Balz or one of a guys at [a conservative blog] Power Line?”
Q. Yeah, or what if [conservative blogger] Hugh Hewitt called?
That’s when you start going, “Hmm . . .” Because ay do reach people who are influential.
Q. Well, ay reach a president’s base.
That’s what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into a vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. ay regurgitate exactly & put up on air blogs what you said to am. It is something that we’ve cultivated & have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.
Uh huh. That’s what I thought.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
