You might say it's a controversy in a circle

Controversy opens Harvard blog meet:

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - An invited group of bloggers and journalists began a two-day conference Friday morning at Harvard University amid cold weather (3 degrees) and controversy.

Alex Jones, head of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, acknowledged "contentious" comments have been made about the event's guest list of about 50 people.

Among the critics was a conservative blogger who said the meeting "is a hopelessly biased group of center-left academics/journalists who are once again getting overwhelmed by the marketplace." That statement was made to Ed Cone, one of the conference's participants...

The part where they form a circle and see who can post the fastest will not be webcast, unfortunately.

Bloggage · Fri, 01/21/2005 - 08:40 · · Importance: 1