Comments on: Why Campaign Bloggers are Boring http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/why_campaign_bloggers_are_boring/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:18:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: yetanotherjohn http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/why_campaign_bloggers_are_boring/comment-page-1/#comment-151986 yetanotherjohn Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/09/why_campaign_bloggers_are_boring/#comment-151986 Why not, then, hire people whose judgment and temperament you trust and give them the latitude to write passionately for the cause? Because you want plausible deniability. Life is hard enough for the candidates to have to live with what they say. It becomes even harder to live with what others say for them. There is a reason a campaign has a spokesperson rather than allowing any campaign staffer to talk to the press. A blogger who can "speak their mind" is inevitably going to say something to offend someone. Why not, then, hire people whose judgment and temperament you trust and give them the latitude to write passionately for the cause?

Because you want plausible deniability. Life is hard enough for the candidates to have to live with what they say. It becomes even harder to live with what others say for them. There is a reason a campaign has a spokesperson rather than allowing any campaign staffer to talk to the press.

A blogger who can "speak their mind" is inevitably going to say something to offend someone.

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