Blogs have ghost writers? That’s lame.
7 August 2007
The life of a modern day politician is pretty busy. There are babies to kiss, seniors to visit and oversized cheques to hand out.
Now add blogging to that list. Western New York’s Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds has (sort of) started a blog “From Wall Street to Main Street” covering carried interest and private equity.
PEHub posted this link to the Congressman’s blog:
Blogging about private equity is so easy, even a congressman can do it.
Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) has launched a site called From Wall Street to Main Street, which promises to discuss both private equity and the debate over carried interest taxation. It’s actually ghostwritten by Reynolds communications director L.D. Platt – but there is no reason politicians should write their own blogs, when so few of them write their own bills.
Anyway, the blog looks to be a daily compilation of articles related to private equity, with a particular affinity toward items predisposed toward keeping carried interest taxed as capital gains. Like most of his GOP brethren, Reynolds opposes changing over to an ordinary income treatment. It also has relevant feeds from such websites as the WSJ, CNBC, the NY Times and, of course, peHUB (even though I happen to support a change in tax policy).
Still waiting for the Sandy Levin, Max Baucus or Chuck Grassley blog…
And here is the abridged mention of the PEHub link from Reynold’s blog. Note the ghost writer reference is omitted:
Dan Primack, the editor at PEHUB.com, gives a shout out to “From Wall Street to Main Street” blog. Primack writes:
Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) has launched a site called From Wall Street to Main Street, which promises to discuss both private equity and the debate over carried interest taxation…Anyway, the blog looks to be a daily compilation of articles related to private equity, with a particular affinity toward items predisposed toward keeping carried interest taxed as capital gains.
PEHUB.com is a great resource for all news private equity as well. Thanks Dan.
No mention on the blog that it is written by anyone else. Although the use of “shout out” was a pretty good hint.
Otherwise it is made to look like it’s his stuff. His name on the top. Chatty writing style preferred by blogs.
Ken Dryden had a much better approach – he credited each contributor to his blog. He’s a team player as they say.
Blogging is becoming a big thing in politics now; a new way to get the message out. A more personal way. But having someone else write it isn’t more personal, it’s just … phoney.
CWN.
2 Responses to “Blogs have ghost writers? That’s lame.”
August 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Who cares who writes it? It looks like it has decent information on it.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Funny,
Could “Concerned Citizen” have a House of Representatives IP address?
Do Congressmen have ghost writers for blogs AND for comments on blogs?