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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:09:01 -0400

on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:01:08PM -0400, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Steven Champeon wrote:
> >>You gotta be kidding, right? Go read the letters to the editor in the
> >>Durham Herald Sun from a few days ago. Two different people from
> >>Hillsborough were defending Bush vociferously. :-(
> >>
> >>It amazes me how many folks are still strongly behind him.
> >
> >
> > That's assuming the editorials weren't just astroturf. Did you search
> > on certain key phrases in the editorials? In the past, such heartfelt
> > editorials have been revealed to be nothing more than bogus efforts to
> > promote utterly false "grassroots" feelings.
>
> First off, they were letters to the editor, not editorials. Isn't there
> a difference? I thought editorials were written by the paper, or people
> at the paper, and letters to the editor are just that.

Ah, my mistake - I meant letters to the editor, though IIRC examples of
both have been found.

> I hadn't considered that people may be astroturfing letters to the
> editor, which I find a heinous idea but entirely within the realm of
> today's political discourse, unfortunately. Do you have any references
> on this I could use to educate myself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturf_campaign

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