Google carries Allen shill, but not Webb shill
I noticed today in my Google News Alerts a post on the QandO blog. Yet I've never seen anything coming from Raising Kaine. What gives, Google? You'll feed us Senator Allen's propaganda but not Webb's? I've also noticed that Google carries Redstate sometimes, but not Daily Kos. The two sites are practically mirror images, if you ignore Daily Kos' insane popularity.
Allen's netroots coordinator Jon Henke writes for QandO. Lowell Feld, his counterpart on the Webb side writes for Raising Kaine. QandO is a great blog, but I don't believe QandO should qualify as news. It's a blog, plain and simple. Also interesting - Jon Henke is no longer the "Netroots Coordinator" for the Allen campaign. He is now the "New Media Coordinator."
It seems the new strategy on the Republican side is to accuse Raising Kaine of some sort of election law malfeasance. This is bizarre. First of all, these kinds of accusations won't hurt Webb. They aren't sexy enough. Secondly, they have no merit. And you know, it's funny, Dick Wadhams didn't have much of a problem with paying bloggers under the table back in South Dakota. There certainly wasn't any collusion in that case. None at all.
Meanwhile, the Webb campaign is smartly putting out their first TV ad starring Ronald Reagan. In it Reagan praises Webb for being an all around great guy. I can't think of any better way to get Webb into voters' minds. This is the first brilliant move by the Webb campaign. Maybe they do have their act together? With some luck he could pull it off.
Allen's netroots coordinator Jon Henke writes for QandO. Lowell Feld, his counterpart on the Webb side writes for Raising Kaine. QandO is a great blog, but I don't believe QandO should qualify as news. It's a blog, plain and simple. Also interesting - Jon Henke is no longer the "Netroots Coordinator" for the Allen campaign. He is now the "New Media Coordinator."
It seems the new strategy on the Republican side is to accuse Raising Kaine of some sort of election law malfeasance. This is bizarre. First of all, these kinds of accusations won't hurt Webb. They aren't sexy enough. Secondly, they have no merit. And you know, it's funny, Dick Wadhams didn't have much of a problem with paying bloggers under the table back in South Dakota. There certainly wasn't any collusion in that case. None at all.
Meanwhile, the Webb campaign is smartly putting out their first TV ad starring Ronald Reagan. In it Reagan praises Webb for being an all around great guy. I can't think of any better way to get Webb into voters' minds. This is the first brilliant move by the Webb campaign. Maybe they do have their act together? With some luck he could pull it off.
posted by Virginia Debunker Expatriate at 9:10 PM
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Google dropped Daily Kos at the request of Markos Moulitsas. He wrote a post about this. Anyone can write a diary about anything on Daily Kos. Some of the diaries are pretty far out there. Kos doesn't mind catching flack for what he writes, but doesn't want to answer for every diary that goes up, so Google does not pick up on Daily Kos. It does go up on Local Lefty Blogs, tagged by state.
I don't know about RK.
I should tell you the background on that Google News stuff.
1) First, Google is absolutely inexplicable. There seems to be little rhyme or reason behind their indexing choices. Not that I'm complaining.
2) I *think* Raising Kaine was indexed by GN previously, but they seem to have dropped off. I'm not sure why. They seem like a valid blog to be indexed by GN, as far as I can tell. I would have no objection to their inclusion.
3) QandO has been indexed by GN for almost two years. Our inclusion has nothing to do with my very recent job. In any event, with rare bursts, I'll blog rarely at QandO during the campaign.
Just thought you might want to know. There's no Google News/Allen Campaign cabal. They just include some blogs and ours has been a long-time inclusion, because (I think) QandO has a fairly unique POV.
If you have any questions, you're welcome to contact me.
I looked at it a little more, and apparently there are complaints everywhere that Google News is very arbitrary. Strange. Thanks for the response.
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