{"id":2614,"date":"2008-05-27T05:03:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2008-05-27T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T10:03:49","slug":"well-thats-a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"Well, That&#8217;s A First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt noticed &#8211; my NARN colleague Michael Brodkorb&#8217;s role in derailing the Al Franken senate campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/24bloggers.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1211742701-A48JHOcVghj\/NaOc9HvrEA&#038;pagewanted=print\">made it to the Sunday New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times&#8217; <\/em>writer, Monica Davey, made what seemed to be a game effort at conveying the Minnesota political blog scene, including a half-hour interview with me a few weeks ago that covered primarily the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers and, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\"><em>True North<\/em><\/a>, my other blog.\u00a0 She seemed genuinely curious &#8211; and, within the constraints of space, did a decent job of getting at least <em>some <\/em>of the basics across.<\/p>\n<p>The good news?\u00a0 I got into the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news?\u00a0 From our half-hour conversation, this was the quote she ran:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve kind of got a center of gravity going on up here,\u201d said M\\<br \/>\nitch Berg, one in a group that started a \u201cTrue North\u201d Web site in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;going on up here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oy.\u00a0 Good thing I didn&#8217;t say &#8220;Ja, sure, you betcha&#8221;, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; Kudos, Michael!<\/p>\n<p>And Scott Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives2\/2008\/05\/020598.php\">gives some of the anti-climactic background<\/a> to the whole NARN saga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt noticed &#8211; my NARN colleague Michael Brodkorb&#8217;s role in derailing the Al Franken senate campaign made it to the Sunday New York Times. The Times&#8217; writer, Monica Davey, made what seemed to be a game effort at conveying the Minnesota political blog scene, including a half-hour interview with me a few weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,39,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-mob","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}