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- From: burnett AT pobox.com
- To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, 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.
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?
--[Lance]
Lance:
I don't have a URL offhand, but I recall several discussions of astroturfing (mostly in the blogosphere, but at least one that first originated in print form in a newspaper) over the last few months on the blog _Making Light_. ( http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ ).
I'll try to look for specific sources there and otherwhere, but I would suggest looking there and using their Search for the word 'astroturf'.
best,
Steve B
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Scott Chilcote, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Greg Brown, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Lyman Green, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Greg Brown, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Lance A. Brown, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Lance A. Brown, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Tanner Lovelace, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, burnett, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Michael Czeiszperger, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Chad Ingham, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Michael Czeiszperger, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Chad Ingham, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Lyman Green, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Greg Brown, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Greg Brown, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Scott Chilcote, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Michael Czeiszperger, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Tanner Lovelace, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Greg Brown, 09/21/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker, Michael Czeiszperger, 09/21/2006
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Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker,
Steven Champeon, 09/21/2006
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