Veep News is Hot News!
Sen. John Kerry's choice of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as his Democratic running mate dominated post-July Fourth news coverage and the blogging world as well.
Tuesday's list of key people included no less than five links to the Kerry-Edwards ticket, and Edwards scored four of the top five slots among burstiest people as well. Blog references ranged from the official announcement to the GOP attack response to many observational musings. Add in all the other vice president-related personalities (Cheney, Gephardt, McCain) and news of Kerry's veep choice dominated 11 of the top 40 key people links.
The Kerry-Edwards team garnered even more traction among top links in Tuesday's blog results, grabbing mentions in 21 of the top 40. Of course, some of those included the New York Post's glaring headline blunder that erroneously touted Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt as Kerry's running mate. I'm guessing the Post's newsroom cafeteria is serving up lots of "Dewey Defeats Truman" crow this week...
And hey! How about those wacky Iraqis? A web site called "Rock, Paper, Saddam" offers mindless entertainment created from images of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's recent appearance before an Iraqi court. Someone was bound to do something humorous, and why not rock-paper-scissors? Much less uplifting are the results of a poll of Canadian teens, 40% of whom consider Americans to be "evil."
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Posted by Sue MacDonald at July 7, 2004 12:36 PM
