Green Party Convention Coverage – Blogger 1 MSM 0

Mark Coughlan blogs on how Education Spokesman and occasional Miriam Lord football, Paul Gogarty was on the brink of resigning following the kick to touch of Motion 14 before the Green Party Convention yesterday. Twitters flew about this lunchtime on the possibility that Gogarty would go. Mainstream media were schtum about this until RTÉ Radio ran with it at one o’clock and went further by confirming the story. Blogging from the trenches beats the hell out of MSM turnaround times!

Looking at all of the new media work that the Green Party are doing to message out their political agenda – wouldn’t it be far more useful to have the text published on the website. I could be wrong, but I can’t see to easily find the text of the motions. If they are there, then it’s a failure to bake in proper discoverability into the site. Another fail. Forget viral video competitions, how about pushing out informative texts on RSS. New Media 101?

March 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm • Filed in Politics



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