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March 29, 2005

An Open Letter to the National Press Club

The National Press Club wants to have a chat about Gannongate and the impact of bloggers, without actually having any liberal poltical bloggers.

How can you hold a proper event to discuss the impact of blogs on the Gannongate story without actually having at least some of the bloggers there who exposed the story?

You can't, of course.

The Agonist has put together a letter to the National Press Club, signed by a list of liberal political bloggers, who want to have participation in this event by liberal political bloggers.

There's also a list of phone numbers provided. Let these folks know that liberal bloggers need to be included in these roundtable discussions about them:

Please call Julie Shue or Rick Dunham at the The National Press Club and politely insist that they include John Aravosis of Americablog.org at their event. Here are there numbers: 202-662-7500 or 202-662-7501 or email at tglad@press.org and info@npcpress.org.

And just to keep things saucy,Americablog finds a catfight brewing on this issue between the MSM and Editor and Publisher.

Time for popcorn and Junior Mints, kids.

Update: Just got word in email that the National Press Club has decided to also invite moderate lefty blogger Matthew Yglesias.

Update 2: Yglesias' appearance confirmed.

Posted by Carla at March 29, 2005 02:29 PM