Will TechPresident Abandon Joe Anthony?

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Joe Anthony Reaches Out to Politics 2.0 - Joe: "This will take time, but believe me, I'm still working day and night to find the best way forward." - By Alex Hammer
http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/joe-anthony-reaches-out-to-politics-2.html

Will TechPresident Abandon Joe Anthony?
I'm not just talking about the fact that there is no new post today on TechPresident (so far) about the Joe Anthony situation.

And I do realize that TechPresident brought this story to light.

This is an important story, and given that fact I would like to think that it would have received major press coverage regardless, because it deserves to.

And still does.

Or maybe a resolution to having a valuable site "taken"

http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/anthony-speaks-on-obama-myspace.html

http://www.techpresident.com/node/310 (See update section)

(you'll have to make your own determination) isn't considered newsworthy anymore?

That is one of my questions to TechPresident (and to others also as they decide whether or not to follow this story)

Maybe we're right to be cynical about politics.

Maybe the ends do justify the means.

Kudos to TechPresident for breaking the story (I was very happy with that as well), but let's take a closer look.

When TechPresident said in the last post they did on this unfortunate Obama MySpace Joe Anthony situation:

"For those people who imagined that Joe Anthony might turn to the courts and sue the Obama campaign for taking control of a community space that he spent two-and-a-half years and thousands of hours nurturing, that move is fortunately for all concerned not in the cards."

to my mind, the word fortunately pretty much killed (or threw cold water) on this story.

Maybe I'm missing something, but that pretty much tells me, right from the beginning of the piece, that they don't want the story going further (i.e. that it might grow uncomfortable, I guess, on many sides, and that is not wanted, that's a guess).

Compare that with the important unanswered questions, and perhaps sense of remaining injustice (if you read it that way) that still exists, as per the remainder of that very same TechPresident post.

http://www.techpresident.com/node/310

And contrast that with the information and tone with TechPresidents' two earlier major posts on this story.

http://www.techpresident.com/node/305

and

http://www.techpresident.com/node/301

As just a single reminder, here is a single quote from that original - and still recent - TechPresident story:

"The most intriguing thing about this whole mess is this is the first time I can think of where the grass-roots activist at the bottom of the pile has a megaphone as big as the folks who tried to boss him around."

What type of megaphone will Joe Anthony have if TechPresident and/or the major press do abandon him?

Do move on to whatever interests them next.

Will Tech President write further about Joe Anthony (and if they do will that provide further clarification of the history and resolution of the Obama MySpace Joe Anthony situation)?

Politics 2.0 has also looked at the incredible leap in traffic that TechPresident has gained by running the Obama MySpace Joe Anthony story.

http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/exclusive-techpresident-traffic-rockets.html

And that doesn't even include all the additional benefits that one might calculate one receives when one is the central identified source in a National and International major news story.

And why aren't the blogging community (and look at how many of them there are!) that is largely outraged at what has occurred (or at a minimum feel that it is wrong, of course the blogsophere is not homogenous) now being ignored by larger press?

That is wrong (I believe), and it bothers me.

Let's look at it from this perspective:

Some may feel that Joe Anthony was abandoned by the Barack Obama campaign (a few minutes of outreach from Barack Obama himself doesn't count).

Some may feel that MySpace abandoned Joe Anthony (I don't know all the details, but at this point I feel this way).

So, if TechPresident abandons Joe Anthony, what realistic chance does he really have left?

None, most likely.

TechPresident, the world (if that's not too broad a phrase) now believes in Joe Anthony.

His situation remains unresolved.

So what are you going to do now?

TechPresident, will you abandon Joe Anthony?

Alex Hammer
Politics 2.0

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