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The New Fourth Estate

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Abstract

If you’ve been wondering when the mainstream media were going to show up in this book about blogging, they’ve just entered from stage right. In this chapter, we’re going to whip through these topics:

  • Why some reporters are firing their newspapers and blogging for a living

  • How bloggers are stepping in and covering local news

  • How reporters and bloggers are working together

  • How you—yes you!—can make it onto CNN

  • How blogging determined who controlled the US Congress after the 2006 midterm elections

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(2007). The New Fourth Estate. In: Clear Blogging. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0321-6_10

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