Politics As Dean Addresses YearlyKos, Dowd Heads for the Slot Machines
Howard Dean is talking now. But before his speech, everyone was buzzing about Maureen Dowd’s column, out this morning, in which she hones in on the New Media vs. Old Media collision that’s been very apparent at this conference. Dowd quotes Kos, who is going to be on Meet The Press tomorrow morning, gloating about how blogs have evened the opinion-maker playing field: “Traditionally it was hard to get your job,” he tells her. “Now regular people can score your job.”
To which she responds:
Fine. I’ll be at the Cleopatra slot machine pondering a career in blogging, which will set me up to get back into mainstream media someday.
The New York Times’ Adam Nagourney has his own take on the conference, here.
UPDATE:
And here’s a picture from last night’s meetup of about 20 Washington State bloggers and “Kossacks” who are down in Las Vegas for the conference. At left, in the orange, is “switzerblog”:
Watching rich white men give speeches is my idea of a vacation. Can you book me a room in a Las Vegas hotel room so I can waste water in the desert and rub shoulders with other affluent white people. Can I get sustainably grown lettuce in my buffet-line salad?
I want to spend thousands of dollars going to a Las Vegas convention where we talk about how everything's going to be cyber, and how the Red States are to blame for global warming.