{"id":200,"date":"2005-01-17T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/wsj-dean-campaign-made-payments-to-two-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:28:49","slug":"wsj-dean-campaign-made-payments-to-two-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wsj-dean-campaign-made-payments-to-two-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on the recent WSJ article <\/a> about the Dean campaign paying bloggers <\/span> to write good things:<\/p>\n

* excerpts from the article<\/a><\/p>\n

* from Kos<\/a>: <\/u><\/div>\n

Sat Jan 15th, 2005
\nat 15:46:59 PST<\/em><\/p>\n

For those of you unable to listen to the podcast of this interview here’s a transcript<\/a> I typed up due to the fact that I have
\nentirely too much time on my hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

* Jeff Jarvis has an interesting post<\/a> on Zephyr Teachout’s  recent  post<\/a> that  seems to be stirring this pot.<\/p>\n

* Laura Gross, who spoke to the WSJ, had this to say<\/a> about the story:<\/p>\n

I know many of you have questions so I wanted to give you the full
\nstory. I am sorry I have not responded sooner, I have been traveling
\nall day with Gov. Dean and I’m in St. Louis now. Thank you for your
\nmessages and e-mails . . . here’s the full story:<\/em><\/p>\n

So I got a call Thursday from the Jeanne Cummings, The Wall Street
\nJournal reporter who covered the Dean campaign. By all accounts, she
\ndid a fine job — covered all aspects of the campaign, even met the Web
\nteam and wrote a long story on their work. She was calling, she said,
\non behalf of some of her paper’s reporters in Boston who were looking
\ninto a story about the campaign and the blogs. <\/em><\/p>\n

She said she thought she knew what was going on, and we talked "on
\nbackground" so she could "just clear things up once and for all" —
\nthat is, not for attribution. By the end of the conversation she had
\nconfirmed what she thought — that there was no news, that this was
\nwhat she called a "dead story" — and said that she didn’t think there
\nwould be any article at all, much less one that mentioned Dean. She
\nsaid that if for some reason she needed a quote she’d call me back.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next thing I know there appears in the WSJ an article so sloppy and
\nso inaccurate that I spent the morning trying to track Jeanne down to
\nfind out what happened. She called me back at 10:30 a.m. — and
\nactually apologized for the article (written by two colleagues). She
\nsaid that she wouldn\ufffdt work with those reporters in the same capacity
\nagain, would only give them on-the-record quotes and assured me that
\nshe had notified her editors.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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