Thoughts on politics and life from a liberal perspective

Sunday 7 February 2010

How much difference does political blogging make?

...will be the subject of an interesting looking panel discussion tomorrow hosted by Westminster Skeptics tomorrow and moderated by House of Comments podcast participant Jack of Kent.



Leading political bloggers on the impact and lack of impact of blogging


When?
Monday, February 8 at 7:30PM

Where?
The Monk Exchange
Strutton Ground
London
SW1H 0HW

Who?
Panel Discussion

What's the talk about?

Four accomplished political bloggers:-

Guido Fawkes: http://order-order.com/

Jonathan Isaby of Conservative Home: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/

Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy: http://liberalconspiracy.org/

Mick Fealty of Slugger O'Toole: http://www.sluggerotoole.com/

will join mainstream media journalist Nick Cohen http://nickcohen.net/ to discuss whether political blogging is actually making any difference to the course of political events.

Moderated by Jack of Kent: http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/


I originally thought I wasn't going to be able to go to this but I have moved a couple of things around and will hopefully be able to make it now.

See you there...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Any difference blogging makes is to those who seek out information and in that respect is likely to result in providing a) another perspective and/or b) details previously unknown.

Blogs are not the mainstream news. The mainstream news has a far wider audience and is far more accessible. Bloggers are able to show up lazy journalists so they probably help sift the wheat from the chaff.

-Simon