{"id":2214,"date":"2007-08-06T18:03:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-lopsided-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:03:25","slug":"the-lopsided-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-lopsided-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lopsided Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/05\/AR2007080501580.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators<\/a> &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n<p>Walking around [the major conference for progressive bloggers] during the weekend, it became clear that only a handful of the 1,500 conventioneers &#8212; bloggers, policy experts, party activists &#8212; are African American, Latino or Asian. Of about 100 scheduled panels and workshops, less than a half-dozen dealt directly with women or minority issues. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s mostly white. More male than female,&#8221; says the former high school math and science teacher turned activist. &#8220;It&#8217;s not very diverse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There goes the open secret of the netroots, or those who make up the community of the Internet grass-roots movement. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, who is part Latina, &#8230; said one reason she came to Yearly Kos was to get an answer to this question: &#8220;Why is the blogosphere, which is supposed to be more democratic, reinforcing the same white male power structure that exists?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators &#8211; washingtonpost.com Walking around [the major conference for progressive bloggers] during the weekend, it became clear that only a handful of the 1,500 conventioneers &#8212; bloggers, policy experts, party activists &#8212; are African American, Latino or Asian. Of about 100 scheduled panels and workshops, less than a half-dozen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-lopsided-blogosphere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lopsided Blogosphere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}