Window to the Web with LINKS for Friday, July 9, 2004

I’m Don Smith with your Window to the Web….

If you’re looking comprehensive news of the upcoming political conventions on the Web, you’ll find that the coverage won’t be as good as it was four years ago.

Even the major TV networks have announced they’ll be scaling back their broadcast efforts.

CBS Marketwatch reports that, unlike four years ago, there have been few, if any, announcements by Webcasters of plans to cover the conventions.
Pseudo.com had convention coverage in 2000 that let Web users choose events they wanted to see. In 2001, the Web firm went bankrupt and Pseudo.com has remerged as a music site.

You may have to find much of your information in pieces from Web Bloggers; people who write for their own online diary. A number of Bloggers have signed up to cover the conventions.

Of course, the major news sites such as
MSNBC.com
CBSNews.com
ABCNews.com
CNN.com
and
FoxNews.com
will cover the conventions, but there will be fewer sources by which to gain different perspectives.

This declining interest in covering the conventions comes at a time when many Americans seem to be more polarized over who should be the next president than they have been in many years.

To see the links mentioned here, go to my Blog at DonSmith.TV.

I’m Don Smith with your Window to the Web.