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This started a major storm in the Blogosphere, with Michael getting support from such notables as Michelle Malkin, Slant Point, RedState, The Ace of Spades, Dan Lovejoy, dustbury.com, PolPundit, Blogs For Bush, and many other blogs.
Kevin McCullough, Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host covered this on his radio show on Tuesday, February 15, 2005, and posted a number of email addresses and phone numbers for Tulsa World executives on his website.
dustbury.com had a really interesting quote:
A World of their ownIt was always thus: you read The Tulsa Tribune for news, and the Tulsa World for, um, well, no one really knows why anyone read the Tulsa World. But there were two papers, operating under one of those Joint Operating Agreements, and all was well with the world — or with the World, anyway, which shut down the JOA in 1992 and acquired monopoly status.
Editorially, the Tribune was farther right than the World, but the problem, from the World's point of view, wasn't the Tribune's politics: it was the fact that the Tribune was in a position to keep an eye on the Lorton family's wheelings and dealings, not all of which made it into their paper.
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Nerf-Coated World had a very good post on Fair use.
There were a number of other posts on this subject:
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The MSM (Main Stream Media) is very worried about blogs. Right wing bloggers first exposed the Rathergate scandal where CBS featured forged documents about Bush's National Guard service and CNN's Eason Jordan's statments at Davos while left wing bloggers brought down Jeff Gannon/James Guckert of Talon News (see Have They No Shame? No, Actually, They Don't and James Guckert For Dummies - The Story So Far for further information on Jeff Gannon/James Guckert.
Michael D. Bates can be heard every Monday morning between 6 and 7 on the Michael DelGiorno Show, on 1170 KFAQ.
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According to a BusinessWeek article there are some 7 million bloggers, and that number is growing by 40,000 a day.
BatesLine is certainly not the only Blog in Oklahoma. At the time I am writing this, there are 156 blogs in Oklahoma, listed here. This list includes two blogs I have started: HelpingTulsa Blog and my personal Blog. Other Blogs that caught my eye include Tech Smores (tech related information), http://carbcounter.blogspot.com/ (New research, products and news relating to low carbohydrate dieters and individuals with hypoglycemia), Lewis Crest News (News concerning the Lewis Crest Area in Tulsa), Hooah Wife (The journal of a Jewish moderate conservative military wife whose husband is deployed to Iraq), Tulsa Topics (An alternative news source for Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as, as "common folk" commentary on the issues that affect the City of Tulsa), Sooner Thought (left wing), OK Calvin (ruminations of an Oklahoma pastor), Libertarian Party Blog (Libertarian), Insect Blog (Observations and photographs of Stephens County insects by an amateur enthusiast and collector), Bell Curve (Tyson Stanek, a University of Oklahoma Law School student describes application, preparation, and survival of a JD degree), ArklahomBoy (News and views from a cultural conservative), The Happy Homemaker (Daily observations from a homemaker/attorney about law, family, religion, Oklahoma, cooking, and trivial pursuits), Passionate America (A stay-at-home Dad serving passionate commentary with a down-home flavor), Oklarama (Information and commentary from an unabashed Oklahoma partisan), Blue Dot Blog (A Blue Voice from the Red State Wilderness), Mainstream Baptist (The personal blog of Dr. Bruce Prescott, Executive Director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists), Sleeping Mommy (31 year old stay at home mom happily married five years with three kids ages three and under).
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