{"id":238,"date":"2003-11-05T17:51:26","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","slug":"lets_put_on_a_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Put On A Show!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my part of the presentation got done this morning at 3:00, and I’m up and don’t have much to do until this afternoon, so a bit of blogging and then back to reading documents.<\/p>\n

Kevin Drum<\/a> and I have agreed to do a cross-blog discussion, which I hope will widen, starting on the policy positions I took in my piece chastening the Democrats. We’ll work out some structure for it over the next day or so and maybe start it next week (if that works for him).<\/p>\n

Tristero<\/a> and I have also been having a damn civil email dialog, and have cooked up something which I then proposed to Kevin, and which he reasonably shot down as impossibly burdensome. But…I’m thinking we might try to make it into a collective project, and so a feasible one. And if nothing else if it fails, it will fail spectacularly.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m thinking about as a start. <\/p>\n

An encyclopedia of information on the policies of each of the major candidates in a specific set of areas.<\/b> Pulling together position papers, speeches, news clips, etc., in one place so that people can step up to meet Tristero’s Challenge and actually read primary sources.<\/p>\n

Now, I’ll point out that position papers do not policy make, and policy does not action determine. But it’s a start…<\/p>\n

What I’d like to do is invite partisan supporters of each candidate to email me, and we’ll pick one person who will in essence be a ‘librarian’ for each of the major candidates (Clark, Dean, Gephart, Kerry, and Bush) who will receive information from reader or other sources, and then will forward links to Joe & me. We’ll then create an updated-weekly post around several areas that we think are interesting so that readers can link directly to all the current position papers and speeches of each candidate around a topic.<\/p>\n

Call it ‘open source’ journalism.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the basic question: Stupid or Useful? Answer below in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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