{"id":5809,"date":"2008-03-15T12:47:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T19:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2008-03-17T04:07:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:07:28","slug":"writers-strike-at-daily-kos-try-a-readers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5809","title":{"rendered":"Writers’ Strike at Daily Kos? Try a Readers’ Strike…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad from Phoenix, AZ…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Alegre”, a longtime Daily Kos diarist, has called for a writers’ strike<\/a> at the world’s largest supposedly-Progressive blog site, due to what she says has become a “hostile environment” for pro-Clinton supporters.<\/p>\n

She writes that the place has become “little more than an echo chamber with an attitude that harkens back to the early days of Dubbya’s administration – yer either with us or yer a’gin us, heh!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

We don’t know whether that’s the case or not, since we haven’t much followed what goes on at dKos for years for our own personal, if not necessarily unrelated, reasons.<\/p>\n

If you really<\/i> want to get the attention of a blog owner, however, we’d suggest a readers’<\/i> strike is far more likely to accomplish that goal, since the business model for such operations relies on reader<\/em> traffic to help set ad prices.<\/p>\n

Want to make sure the folks running dKos take notice of your concerns? Stop hitting those pages in big<\/i> numbers — yes, even checking for new comments counts as a new page view for advertisers — and believe us, they’ll notice. That is, if you believe getting at their bottom line is useful towards getting them to behave more responsibly — and more progressively — over there.<\/p>\n[Full Disclosure<\/i><\/strong>…since we believe in such things, even if the owner and front-pagers at dKos do not…<\/p>\n

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We’ve had our own recent run-ins with the gate-keepers there who have inappropriately attempted to marginalize The BRAD BLOG<\/a> and other Election Integrity advocates a number of times in recent weeks with inaccurate, defamatory, unsupported, and evidence-free allegations, even while they’ve had their own undisclosed, highly-unethical, interest-conflicted reasons for doing so in several such cases. We don’t wish to re-hash it all today, but you can peruse the matter for yourself in great detail via our Daily Kos category<\/a>, which offers a number of articles describing the disgraceful, irresponsible, and self-destructive record of behavior of many of those in charge of the once-important dKos daily machine, including Markos Moultisas himself, and some of his front pagers such as Dana “DHinMI” Houle, who was, until recently, the chief of staff to a U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Houle’s embarrassing lack of disclosure<\/a> occurred while he was busy hurling childish insults and inaccurate accusations at those of us who’d accurately documented massive failures in NH’s unforgivably bad election system<\/a>, which he was furiously defending by abusing his powerful position to offer wholly misleading information to his readers.<\/p>\n

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Blogged by Brad from Phoenix, AZ… “Alegre”, a longtime Daily Kos diarist, has called for a writers’ strike at the world’s largest supposedly-Progressive blog site, due to what she says has become a “hostile environment” for pro-Clinton supporters. She writes that the place has become “little more than an echo chamber with an attitude that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,358],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-daily-kos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}