Well, you won’t see Trent Lott on Blogspot:
Beltway politicos, famously slow to adopt technology, are wooing blogs – all but Trent Lott.
“Bloggers claim I was their first pelt, and I believe that. I’ll never read a blog,” says the former Senate majority leader, who forfeited that title after bloggers Joshua Micah Marshall and Glenn Reynolds picked up a racially charged remark, drawing the attention of mainstream media (MSM) and his Senate colleagues….
Last week, House Republicans convened the first ever “Capitol Hill Blog Row.” In a small committee room in the Capitol, a dozen bloggers, selected by an informal poll of GOP staff, were provided soft drinks, a high-speed Net connection, and access to top Republican figures for half a day. Issues discussed ranged from how to cut government spending to the future of the GOP.
As a follow-up, Speaker Hastert is launching his own blog. “Blogging is the new talk radio,” says Hastert spokesman Ron Bonjean. “People listen to talk radio because the mainstream media is too liberal for them. It makes sense for the Speaker to get the Republican message out to them.”
