{"id":1899,"date":"2008-09-22T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-09-22T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T17:10:00","slug":"the_progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Noise Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny, but for all the talk about the &#8216;Right Wing Noise machine&#8217; on the &#8216;net, the reality is that the left has far out organized and outplayed the right in the political uses of new media.<\/p>\n<p>Much of that is genuine, a slice of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/larisa-alexandrovna\/welcome-to-the-final-stag_b_127990.html\" target=\"browser\">is deranged<\/a>, and now we have some evidence that at least a little bit is Astroturf.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/archives\/194057.php\" target=\"browser\">Jawa Report, Rusty Shackleford backtraced<\/a> an anti-McCain Youtube video and &#8211; I think pretty conclusively &#8211; linked it to Obama&#8217;s campaign. I&#8217;d love to see the left doing this kind of research as well &#8211; I think these kind of actions are questionably illegal and certainly undermine the authenticity of the dialog on the blogs. I&#8217;m amused but not surprised that no left-wing blogs are showing up on the Memeorandum cloud around this post.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/is_blogging_becoming_astroturfed.php\" target=\"browser\">wrote about the increasing and hidden &#8216;professionalization&#8217; of the left-wing blogs<\/a>, and how for a few hundred grand a year folks like Media Matters managed to have a meaningful impact on our political dialog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good gumshoe work by a blogger leads from Youtube videos to Obama campaign HQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}