Blogging The RNC

By Kleinheider Posted on August 31, 2008 at 8:36 pm

Rob Huddleston will be in the house and he’s laying down some ground rules:

I am not a credentialed blogger for the Republican National Convention, and that is probably a good thing. I’ve been credentialed on many other occasions, and, rightly or wrongly, being designated as such can have an effect on one’s blogging of events. This way, I can retain my objectivity, and, as regular readers know of my past (some would say constant) criticisms of the Republican Party, I will not be afraid to dish out some smack if it is called for. (I read a few of the blogs that covered the Democratic National Convention, and I’m convinced that some of them would have happily reported the bright side of even the most despicable actions if the offenders at the DNC would have been Democrats. Objectivity was out the window to the point where their “reports” were nothing more than Astroturf press releases from the Democratic Party.) My aim is to stay clear of that obstacle. The downside of not being credentialed is that my posts will be either very late at night or very early in the morning. Only credentialed bloggers and media can carry their laptops past security, so my blogging will be tethered to my hotel.

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