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Product Details
Free Press, May 2009
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1416560106
ISBN-13: 9781416560104
Description
THE WORLD OF ONLINE NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATION HAS EXPLODED in the last ten years. Social networking sites, YouTube, and blogs offer hours of entertainment, but have also become important vehicles for activism. The "netroots," as Eric Boehlert calls this phenomenon, have risen to incredible power, and never has that been clearer than in the 2008 presidential election.
Bloggers on the Bus traces the major events that rocked the campaign trail and reveals the stories of the online activists who made it all possible. In the tradition of Timothy Crouse's essential bestseller, The Boys on the Bus, Bloggers on the Bus goes inside the modern world of liberal politics to reveal the stories and scandals at its very heart. Boehlert exposes just how much influence the online community—and especially the blogosphere—had on the outcome of the 2008 elections. Bloggers have set off an industry debate about journalism and privacy and have changed the face of campaign strategy.
This ad-hoc, mostly pro bono, community has been able to change, in telling and significant ways, American politics and media. Colored by vivid portraits and character sketches, this book will reveal the new wave of changes that has revolutionized progressive politics. Like the many passionate reporters and observers who came before them, these men and women are breaking new ground every day. Bloggers on the Bus will chronicle that media and political rebellion as it unfolds and introduce readers to the fascinating players involved.
"Eric Boehlert's book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press, is a tour de force about the rise of activist political blogging that deftly describes the rise of political blogging in the Bush Era. It takes the issue of political blogging and its effect on politics and journalism seriously and provides many first person accounts of how it came about."
-- TalkLeft
"If you're interested in the political blogosphere and the netroots in general, Eric Boehlert's Bloggers on the Bus is a great read....[A] terrifically readable and carefully reported book. Highly recommended."
-- Mother Jones
Metroactive, October 3, 2009
...as embedded reporters feed off the same press releases and same handouts, fearing to break new ground. As Eric Boehlert notes in Bloggers on the Bus, his delightful chronicle of the progressive blogosphere (or 'netroots nation,' as it's ...
Media Matters for America, August 14, 2009
...his stride. This week's media columns This week's media columns from the Media Matters senior fellows: Eric Boehlert asks why the media don't care when conservatives cry "Nazi" (only when liberals do), and Jamison Foser reminds us ...
Media Matters for America, August 8, 2009
...leave behind. This week's media columns This week's media columns from the Media Matters Senior Fellows: Eric Boehlert asks The New Yorker to clean its monocle after it toasted Michael Savage , and Jamison Foser has a must-read ...
Credo Action, June 16, 2009
...the media with David Brock, founder of Media Matters, Joan Walsh, editor in chief of Salon.com, and Eric Boehlert, author of the brand new book Bloggers on the Bus. Media Matters is on the CREDO/Working Assets donations ballot this year - ...
Asheville Citizen-Times, June 16, 2009
...I picked up Eric Boehlert?s new book, ?Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press,? because I wanted to find out how a journalist like Boehlert shows that bloggers ...
Guardian Unlimited, May 26, 2009
...Eric Boehlert closes his examination of how liberal bloggers revived the Democratic party on something of a sour note. In his new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed ...
Montclair Times, May 21, 2009
...morning-show host for MSNBC, dismissed bloggers as 'just sitting there, eating their Cheetos,' a description that Montclair resident Eric Boehlert says illustrates the mainstream media?s disdain of blogging. In the past, political pundits ...
Huffington Post, May 12, 2009
...I was reading this critique of Eric Boehlert's new book by Anglachel, and it reminded me of something I'd thought earlier today: I can't believe that only a few bloggers have reviewed the book ...
Huffington Post, May 12, 2009
...I was reading this critique of Eric Boehlert's new book by Alegre, and it reminded me of something I'd thought earlier today: I can't believe that only a few bloggers have reviewed the book ...
