Pat Powers has a post that claims the South Dakota Blogosphere has changed in 2007:
A friend who was trying to get to those websites that continuously touch on SD issues had asked for my recommendation as to which blogs were worth reading for their coverage of South Dakota issues. I provided those recommendations. But I also pointed out something I’ve noticed in the past 6 months - that South Dakota blog coverage seems to be evolving.
At one time, coordination of media efforts between groups of blogs used to be commonplace on both the left and the right to bring a story to the mainstream media’s attention. Anymore, I just don’t see that.
In the days preceding the 2004 Thune race, several GOP blogs would cross cover stories, such as on the apparent biases of the Argus Leader when it came to Tom Daschle. In the days after, there were several Dem websites who would do the same, such as with the Dan Nelson Auto stories.
But in the past year or so, you don’t see organized "blog storms."
And Pat Powers called the efforts of the Dakota Blog Alliance preopaganda with this:
Anyone care to take a guess as to what it all means? Are we becoming less propagandistic, are we just driving mainstream media less and less, or is there another cause?
The cause is a Republican blogger who claims to be a conservative attacking conservatives on the mainstream media web site. The is an effort by the Democrats and that Republican blogger to prevent the conservative movement to continue its success in 2004 to promote the truth that the Drive-by media and the far-left humanists don’t want to be feed to the masses.
It is because a certain Republican blogger thinks that our efforts in 2004 was "propagandistic". The cause is the blogger/mainstream media partnerships that Todd Epp and Pat Powers have joined to give the Drive-by media continued control over the main message that is delivered to the people of South Dakota. That message is pro-Democrat and pro-RINO liberalism. The cause is the that Pat Powers and Todd Epp have the same elitist attitude that you see in the mainstream media. They are the gods, and we conservative hillbillies need to shut up...you are not one of us.
