NYC Mayor Bloomberg Rewrites Opponent's Blog

This is a good one. Political candidates are now fact-checking each other's blogs. WCBS-TV in New York reports that NYC Mayor Bloomberg's campaign office cried foul over one of his opponent's blog posts.

The Bloomberg camp caught an embarrassing error on democratic candidate Fernando Ferrer's campaign blog. In a September 5th entry on his blog, Ferrer wrote “I was born in the South Bronx and educated in public schools for most of my education.” The Bloomberg campaign reminded Ferrer that he attended Catholic Schools through 12th grade and then went to NYU. The Ferrer campaign removed the line and apologized.

Here's the line of the day, “a spokesman blamed an unnamed staffer for crafting it, based on Ferrer's dictation.” For one, I guess if Ferrer were podcasting this wouldn't have happened. Two, maybe Ferrer should ask his new buddy Howard Dean for some blogging lessons! Boy am I glad New York has a blog-savvy mayor. Whew.

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Comments

[Samanth]

Despite the prevalence of blogs in every other field, I feel blog usage in politics has remained largely untapped - despite Howard Dean's initiative and the Ferrer-Bloomberg standoff. But it is sure to happen - what better way, as the days go by and blogs reach out to more and more peope, to sell yourself as a candidate?

[dino]

the truth is blogging is an will continue to change the landscape of politics, most specifically at the local level. once the usa loses control of the internet you will find an ever abundance of freeform reporting and opinions that will have the ability to set the world on fire.

stay tuned.