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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Politics / Woods What Happens When a Content Aggregator Refuses to Aggregate?

Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM

click to enlarge Adam Kleinheider: the Great Amalgamator
  • Adam Kleinheider: the Great Amalgamator
Out of the breathless excitement over Tennessee Republicans' latest moment in the national spotlight has sprung an ancillary debate among bloggers: Why did Post Politics' Adam Kleinheider refuse to link to the story for so long? Usually right on top of all the state's political news, no matter how silly or trivial, Kleinheider is a tireless content aggregator. So why, as the rest of the state's blogosphere was going crazy over Sherri Goforth's email, was Kleinheider refusing to aggregate that content? (OK, so this isn't exactly an earthshaking controversy, but it's a slow day and this is a blog after all.) As Kleinheider sat on his hands, it didn't go unnoticed among bloggers. Ilissa Gold pointed out that it wasn't until 5:33 p.m. that he finally posted the story and that was after Democratic Party chair Chip Forrester called for Goforth's firing. Gold wrote Kleinheider was "apparently waiting for the Forrester statement so he could make it about 'those crazy Chipinista with their demands!' " Today, Kleinheider is drawing more criticism for throwing up a right-wing blogger's unsupported accusations against an unidentified Democratic legislative staffer. Kleinheider's headline: "Don't Think This One Is Gonna Make It To Wonkette." Southern Beale's retort: "ACK didn't think the Sherri Goforth story was newsworthy but he calls our attention to this e-mail sent by a Democratic Party staffer." A political conservative, Kleinheider defended himself in a long, rambling post last night. He denied he was ignoring the story because it makes Republicans look bad. Instead, he claimed he was purposely sacrificing web traffic in a principled journalistic stand. He said he knew about Goforth's email a couple weeks ago but decided against writing about it because she's only a legislative staffer. "A man's got to have a code," he wrote. He was cutting her some slack.
"Why? It's quite simple really. Sherri Goforth is a civilian. She is not a blogger. She is not a politician. She is not an operative. She is, essentially, a secretary. A secretary in the legislature for 20 years."
His post didn't explain why he also routinely ignores other news stories that conservatives wouldn't like to read. Unless we missed it, he has failed all session, for instance, to post a single story about crimes committed by any of Tennessee's handgun carry permit holders. At times, he has seemed to be flacking for Ron Ramsey's gubernatorial campaign. Of course, it's OK for Kleinheider to make the Nashville Post blog a conservative platform. But it would be nice if he admitted it and stopped faking impartiality. He might want to clue in his bosses at SouthComm, too. We doubt they realize they're paying a guy to promote right-wing causes on their website.

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WHY HASN'T PITH COVERED THE BLAKE P GRAVES SCANDAL?!?!?!

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Posted by Freddie O'Connell on June 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM

Amen Woods!Thanks for calling him out!

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Posted by Thank you on June 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM

Freddie, don't you work for SouthComm?

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Posted by Woods on June 17, 2009 at 1:12 PM

I'm a civilian.

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Posted by Freddie O'Connell on June 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM

Since when is he or anyone required to cover anything? Just because your panties wad up doesn.lt mean he has to cover it.

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Posted by ummmm on June 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM

Couldn't you have left that picture optional, with a big ole NSFW in its place?

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Posted by Taterman on June 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Not again, Jeff. You must be kidding.

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Posted by Joe Kirkpatrick on June 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM

The great thing is woods is actually offended when people don't agree with his libnut horseshit.

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Posted by ummmm on June 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM

AC has damaged his brand. If you count on someone to aggregate then they should aggregate everything.

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Posted by Daniel Plainview on June 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM

OMG, I went on one date Adam Kleinheimer back in 2006. Ugh! I wish I could go into detail, but this is a family rated forum.
Let's just say that there's a reason it was ONE date. And btw, if you've ever heard the complaints about his foul breath, they are true.
To the story of Sherri Goforth: why hasn't she been canned yet?

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Posted by Brittney on June 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM

The above commenter is Not Verified.

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Posted by brittney on June 17, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Daniel has gotten to the heart of the matter. ACK damaged his credibility here. He missed on the biggest story of the last few months. You know how it goes online. What have you done for me lately? More questions have arisen because he so quickly aggregated the story about a Democrat. Why, ACK? Why?

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Posted by Oh, damn . . . on June 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM

That's the biggest story of the last few months?
You may want to get out in the fresh air and sunshine a little more often.

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Posted by Anonymous on June 17, 2009 at 6:46 PM
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