The Right Roots Movement
My notes: I definitely agree that Republicans need to stop looking at blogs as part of the machine to echoe their message and start having a conversation with us. They should reach out to conservative blog representatives for advice on actual ideas for victory, not on how to sell crap sandwiches to the people. I also, of course, love the idea of grants from the government to help increase blog awareness on the right.
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Posted by Jay on November 4, 2008 12:31 am
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So, you want a government handout?
Blogging is work, not asking for a handout.
Well, let me give you one example: hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent during this election season to help Republican candidates get elected and most of it won’t make one iota of difference.
On the other hand, you could have one conservative donor with deep pockets who could hand out, let’s say, twenty $25,000 grants, for two years in a row, and they could double the size the blogosphere.
How?
Well, there are a number of bloggers who could go full time if they could add $25,000 a year to the money they’re making off of advertising. There are other bloggers who could use that money to advertise their blogs. Some other people could use the money to recruit talent and do reporting. Given that the traffic in the blogosphere tends to be heavily concentrated in the top blogs, of which there are a relatively small number, you could see the size of those blogs dramatically increase with these grants.
So, what would you rather have: 500k worth of ads running in states John McCain will probably lose anyway when it’s all said or done, or say another 200k-300k people reading conservative blogs all year round? Which would do more for the conservative movement? Which would ultimately be of greater value?
I see: it’s only a handout when it’s given to anyone but you. You get advertising revenue, that’s your payment. If you’re not getting enough, then you’re not doing a good enough job and don’t deserve a handout.
Stick to your principles.
I don’t think you understand what kind of coalition we are discussing a creation of. I suggest that you follow the link to the original post I am referencing and follow links from it to the original thoughts on this movement. We are discussing ways to make the conservative blogosphere more effective in influence of grassroots and influence of actual representatives. We are talking about how much more effective certain bloggers could be for the elected officials if they could devote their full time job as blogging. In other words, chosen bloggers would be hired, and payed for the additional time they devote, which could be afforded if payed.
It’s “paid” not “payed.” Anyway, if you’re good at it you get paid well for it. Giving tax money to bloggers presenting only one side of the issues, conservative or otherwise, reeks.