Left builds power base in the blogosphere

Ed Pilkington in New York
Saturday September 16, 2006
The Guardian

When historians come to write the definitive account of the rise of the liberal blog in the US, it is quite possible they will identify a small meeting in Harlem this week as a tipping point. The gathering looked unremarkable enough, a group of about 20 men and women sitting round a boardroom table, but it represented something highly significant.

The people assembled were the elite, if that's not a contradiction in terms, of the Democrat-leaning blogosphere. And the man at the centre was Bill Clinton.

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"We are no longer dismissed as just ATMs for the Democrats - now people have to listen to what we say."

ABC television had to listen to what the liberal blogs had to say this week. It came a cropper over a two-part docu-drama about the lead-up to September 11, The Path to 9/11, which portrayed the counter-terrorism efforts of the Clinton administration in a poor light.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1873817,00.html

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