Blogs impact on local politics
Jack Lail: Boss Hogg couldn’t survive bloggers buzz
A snippet:
A bit of background and I’ll be brief. In Knoxville, Tenn., politics is played the Good Ole’ Boy way. Think Boss Hogg from TV’s The Dukes of Hazzard and its fictional Hazzard County, Georgia.
County organization charts read like family trees. Paid county employees hold county elected offices. Meetings are mere formalities for decisions made in used car lots.
Controversies break out among fighting factions aligned with politicos who control dollars and patronage, but rarely ripple out as interests to the average citizen.
And the voters? Don’t raise taxes and keep the schools open and most couldn’t tell you who represents them and couldn’t care less.
