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Blogs will be at the centre of the fight against election spin

07/02/2010

By Claire West

The Conservative Party is so serious about the opportunities in the 'blogosphere' that on Tuesday over seventy bloggers (plus some tweeters) came to a get-together organised by the Party's new media team.

Organiser Samuel Coates said;
"Whilst the centre-right blogosphere is best known for its big players in Westminster, there is plenty of room for a much broader and deeper hinterland of online activism and commentary".
Party Chairman Eric Pickles urged those present to use 'new media' to fight the spin, saying "that's where you come in, for rebuttal".
Coates went on to say that;
"When Mark Twain famously said that a lie "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes" people had barely started using telephones, never mind Twitter. Negative campaigning at a national level is, of course, as old as politics itself. But with the advent of new media, responsibility for tackling it now rests on the shoulders of grassroots activists."

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