Blogs: A Tool for Supreme Court Fight
Political groups preparing to battle over the first U.S. Supreme Court nomination in 11 years have a powerful new tool — Internet blogs — to spread information quickly and influence decision makers without relying on traditional media. Web logs likely numbering in the dozens provide a way for the thoughtful and the passionate to publish their views. Politicians are taking notice as they prepare for the first high court nomination fight since the Internet became common in American households. President George W. Bush walks to the podium to make remarks on the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 1, 2005.
Blogs seen as powerful new tool in U.S. court fight
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Carol Darr, director of George Washington University’s Institute for politics, democracy and the Internet, said those who read and write blogs aren’t “the sad, the mad and the lonely.” Rather, research shows they tend to be people able to influence others, she said
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