Nye medier og intrigant, personfikseret US-politik

Med afsæt i tre af tidens “hotte” – personrelaterede – emner i US amerikansk politik reflekterer John F. Harris i artiklen New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics i Washinton Post over professionelle politikeres muligheder for at kunne begå sig i det nye medielandskab:
Et par citater:

“…the aim of candidates and their operatives is not so much to win an argument as to brand opponents as fundamentally unfit.”

“…Rove said he has benefited on occasion from the new-media echo chamber. When he gave a speech last year saying liberals want to give terrorists understanding and therapy, he delighted when Democrats howled in protest. This guaranteed that the story would stay alive for days. “I was sort of amused by it because it struck me, well, they’re just simply repeating my argument, which was good,” he said.”

“….Many of the first generation of new media platforms, including Limbaugh’s show and Drudge’s Web site, first flourished because of a conviction among conservatives that old media were unfair.
All this has given Republicans a comfort and skill at using new media to political advantage that most Democrats have not matched.”

“…Ken Mehlman, the RNC chairman and head of Bush’s reelection campaign, said his operatives leaked to Drudge because it inevitably drove wider coverage, including to old media organizations: “He puts something up and they have to follow it.”

Artiklen indeholder også et par gode råd fra Bill Clinton til sin kone – hvis hun vælger at stille op til præsidentposten i 2008.

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