New Media and Blogging

Research tips:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/help/global/US/en_US/gh_terms.asp
Historical newspapers online

Blogging tips: http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=12457

Remember some basic terms: http://bostonglobe.com/news/faqs/faq.aspx?id=6260

Blogging information and data

Lott and Thurmond:

• C-SPAN Video (start at 32:00)
• ABC The Note picks it up
• Talking Points Memo 12/6, 12/7, 12/10
• But note that the MSM spotted it, too: Tom Edsall in Washington Post.

Memogate

AND REMEMBER READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK:

For Monday: Perlmutter, ch. 4, 5.
For Wed: Perlmutter plus

• Gabriel Sherman, "The Scoop Factory," The New Republic, March 4, 2009, at http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=82d8d496-d402-4863-b98d-8967de7cc6ab
• Project for Excellence in Journalism, "The New Washington Press Corps," February 11, 2009, at http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/new_washington_press_corps