{"id":810,"date":"2002-12-16T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/16\/blogs-1-lott-0\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:05:37","slug":"blogs-1-lott-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/16\/blogs-1-lott-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs: 1, Lott: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15624,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15625,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogroots.com\\\/comments.blog\\\/238&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15626,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15627,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A59425-2002Dec15.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been really fascinating over the past week or so to see Senator Lott&#8217;s comments create such a stir (and rightly so, I&#8217;d say) \u2014 primarily because it&#8217;s entirely possible that his comment just may have gotten swept under the rug had the &#8216;blogosphere&#8217; not started voicing their outrage.<\/p>\n<p>John Podhoretz of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/\" title=\"New York Post\">New York Post<\/a> recognized the work that various bloggers did in keeping the story alive in his column last Friday. This, then, has led to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogroots.com\/comments.blog\/238\" title=\"John Podhoretz credits blogosphere for Lott takedown\">interesting debate<\/a> on just how much credit really can go to the blogging world \u2014 during which a link was posted to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" title=\"The Washington Post\">Washington Post<\/a> column by Howard Kurtz that also credits the blogosphere with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A59425-2002Dec15.html\" title=\"A hundred-candle story and how to blow it\">keeping the story alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neat to be able to watch a bunch of independent writers across the &#8216;net catch the &#8216;big boys&#8217; of media napping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been really fascinating over the past week or so to see Senator Lott&#8217;s comments create such a stir (and rightly so, I&#8217;d say) &mdash; primarily because it&#8217;s entirely possible that his comment just may have gotten swept under the rug had the &#8216;blogosphere&#8217; not started voicing their outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,599],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}