War blogs positioned themselves as trustworthy alternatives to official spin

Evidence

Blogs were heralded as the new frontier of this participatory journalism. During the beginning of the second Iraq War, “warblogging” spread “trustworthy alternative views concerning the objectives of the Bush Administration and Pentagon and the corporate media spin surrounding them.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 106

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did warblogging’s credibility claims set the template for later influencer claims to authenticity over corporate media?
• XREF: connects to: Native informers differ from collaborators by selling wars to domestic audiences — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126

Broader Connections

• Native informers differ from collaborators by selling wars to domestic audiences #complicates (0.80) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126