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...death of Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last week allows both the government and the insurgent mainstream to adopt a new narrative in which sectarian bloodletting can be blamed on a foreign element that is being liquidated, leaving Iraqis to resolve their differences politically and forge a new consensus. In fact, Zarqawi's elimination - and claims that U.S. and Iraqi forces have followed up with a damaging crackdown on Qaeda cells around Baghdad - has coincided with Maliki's moves towards reconciliation with the Sunnis, including the release of some 2,500 prisoners suspected of aiding the insurgents...
...campaign got a significant bang for its buck. "Think about it," said a Warner staffer, "If we threw this kind of thing for the DNC [Democratic National Committee], it would be just another party." As it was, the event's buzz reverberated throughout the community and into the mainstream media...
...times, despite the early hour (8:30 a.m.) and all those hangovers. He told the assembled activists that the DNC now has an "Internet department" where "we read you every day;" he thundered against Republican "sleazebags" and joked about how he would not be so welcome at a "quote 'mainstream press' event." Indeed, bashing the traditional press became such a reliable applause line that its invocation became like Catskills comedian's shtick: "And how bad is that mainstream media? Bad, huh? Am I right, folks? Am I right...
...about blogging in a way that implies that they're re-inventing the journalistic wheel. "To have good sourcing you have to maintain relationships," says one. And as for letting a master narrative guide one's writing, there are few narratives more over-arching than the presumption that most mainstream journalists are corrupt, weak-willed shills who hobnob with sources at cocktail parties and protect the establishment at the cost of our basic rights. Except, that is, for the new master narrative: empowered netizens speaking brave and uncomfortable truths to power...
...course, the bloggers of Yearly Kos have a ways to go before they are either as feted (or as fetid) as they believe mainstream journalists to be. And as seriously as they seemed to take the conference, they don't take themselves as seriously as mainstream journalists do, either. On the conference's last day, someone brought an industrial roll of aluminum foil and dozens of attendees spent the afternoon walking around in elaborate tin-foil hats. If Judy Miller of the New York Times had thought to pack along a similar prop when she was embedded in Iraq...