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« Blogs To Set Pace in '06 Race | Main | BlogNashville In The News » March 31, 2005Legislator Blog Flap UpdateThe Memphis Commercial Appeal opined today about state Rep. Stacey Campfield's blog and the flap it has caused. Good snippet: Campfield's critics say the blog is full of unfair and malicious attacks on Democrats, which violates the decorum required of lawmakers. All of that may be true but there's still a free speech issue involved. Blogs have become a popular forum where ordinary citizens can go onto the Internet and express their views. Campfield didn't waive his rights to use that forum when he became a legislator.The CA has some reporter-written blogs. To be charitable, they're uneven. Political writer Blake Fontenay's blog isn't very good. Fontenay posted just nine times in the month of March - a few days' output for a real blogger. And he doesn't link to other blogs or websites, so other blogs don't link to him, making Fontenay's blog an undiscovered island in the blogosphere. (With this post, I become just the second blogger to link his blog.) It's not a real blog, just an online dumping ground for stuff Blake couldn't get into the real paper. The Plug In blog by the CA's Online Creative Manager, Eric Janssen, is better. he links to articles and other web sites, though he hasn't posted to it since mid-February. Posted in Blogging & Politics
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