The new media are increasingly learning the lessons of the corporate media. According to this post on the Harper’s site, [1] the bloggers who get personal access to the President are those who write about the President sympathetically.
Here’s an example of the sort of bloggers the President seeks:
Matthew Burden, who blogs under the name Blackfive (who subsequently wrote that Bush called him “brutha,” [who] described Bush as “intelligent, razor sharp, warm, focused, emotional (especially about his dad), and genuine. Even more so than this cynical Chicago Boy expected. I was overwhelmed by the sincerity–it wasn’t staged.”)
In case Bush is considering inviting me, I hereby suggest that Bush is faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . .
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