This forum features Will Lutz and Phillip Klein.

Phillip:  Came over from lamestream media.  There are so many lessons we can learn from the good “professional” journalists.  (ouch, many bloggers are pro journalists)

Phillip: If you have info that can reveal certain truth, it doesn’t matter if you can write that well or not.  If you have it and others don’t, you will move right up that food chain, i.e. Bob Woodward.

Phillip: Most inves reporting is based on someone getting a tip off from someone else.  ”you might wanna check out this…”

P: A lot of what you see is often a reporter tip, but a lot of work must be invested in cultivating sources.   Pro journalists do this and we bloggers can do this.

KCC wishes pro journalists would listen to bloggers more and use bloggers as the sources we are.

Bloggers should look at campaign finance data.  It’s not hard to get and it all depends on how computer  savy you are.  Anyone can link to a story and say something snarky.

Buried in the Health care bill was a ten percent tanning tax.  It was hidden, but it was also mentioned in the TV show, “Jersey Shore”.   It was devistating for people in that business as fewer people, including the character, Snooky, could no longer afford to go to the tanning booth.  We all know that tanning booths are bad, but Obama tried to play nanny, and choose for us whether or not we could choose to patronize those businesses.

Will Lutz with Lone Star Report, an insider group

Started with school newspaper, and when everyone else graduated, the liberals that ran the paper put him in charge of the opinion page.  He shocked the

campus and went from there.

His topic today – Why going local makes sense

You will not make a lot of unique points about what’s going on in Congress but if you carve out of nitch for yourself, you’ll make a much bigger statement by going local.

Write stuff like ‘thanks to Obama, our local taxes are going up by $30 billion over ten years forcing the states to raise taxes.   We have  a state budget crisis b/c of Obama etc.

Local bloggers get more done.

He went on to describe why bloggers need to attend meetings, actually READ legislation, unlike the actual legislators, and that one can find loads of issues hidden in legislation.

Your blogger loves the Civitas Institute for this very reason.  They are a professional group who do just this.  KCC loves to talk advantage of their resources on the NC General Assembly and discuss them.   It’s what keeps this blogger in Raleigh at least part of the year and why KCC hasn’t completely abondoned the NC State Capitol for the NC Coast!

A 500 word blog post is considered a blog post.  TV people are masters of getting a complicated story and stating it in one minute.

Will suggests taking a bigger story and serialize it.  Take a hot story and break it down into three smaller 500 word posts.

End of this session.   Forgive KCC for the choppy writing.  We do our best to keep it coming live.  Next up is Video.  Watch for it here on KCC!

Comments are closed.