Bloggers Question DNC Credential Decisions

Questions shot around the blogosphere when five prominent state blogs were passed over for either lesser-known sites or, in one case, for a site that simply publishes press releases verbatim.
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By Wendy Norris for Colorado Independent.

Questions began to arise when five prominent state blogs were noticeably passed over for either lesser-known sites, or in one case a site that simply publishes press releases verbatim.

Were these blogs dissed because they had written critically about their state parties in the past? How much veto power did local officials have on the selection process which was pitched to the bloggers last November as an unprecedented opportunity to reward those who are "effective online organizers and/or agents of change" by seating them with their state delegations and giving them unfettered access to write about the convention.

Needless to say, the acrimony is rising.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, better known as Kos the proprietor of the million-hits-a day progressive political blog, DailyKos.com, is leading the charge to push the DNCC to disclose its criteria on how the blogs were actually selected.

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