LST mentioned in national magazine : Lone Star Times

LST mentioned in national magazine

by David Benzion · 06/30/2005 2:37 pm

This is cool– LoneStarTimes.com has been cited (and its ~~humble~~ managing editor quoted) in a cover story about state-level political blogging in the July issue of "Governing" magazine– a nationally respected publication read widely by folks that work in government.

If you want to read the whole thing, click on the above pic, but I’ll just go ahead and excerpt the most interesting part right here:

One likely addition to the blogging mix in Texas is new voices from the political right. Most of the current blogs come at politics from the left. That’s probably to be expected — not because bloggers tend to be Democrats but because those first drawn to blogging tend to be dissenters. Nationally, conservatives first took up blogging because they believed a liberal media ignored their views. In Texas politics, the reverse has happened.

David Benzion, one of the few conservative bloggers in Texas, agrees with this theory. Benzion is managing editor of the “Lone Star Times,” a blog that he and Houston talk-radio host Dan Patrick started in January. “If you’re a ’progressive’ in Texas, you feel like you’re under siege,” Benzion says. “You’re living in George W. Bush’s conservative Texas. Some people on the liberal side picked up blogging in state politics as a way to vent. There are probably some on the conservative side who would be blogging about state politics, but don’t feel the need to because they’re basically content.”

That’s an accurate quote– but only about .5% of what I said over the course of an hour long interview.

Apologies to my fellow LST bloggers and folks behind other conservative Texas blogs– you were mentioned, praised, and promoted– but as you will see from the article as a whole, our side of the blogosphere was not the author’s primary focus.

Still, its nice to be noticed, so far as it goes.

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7 Responses to “LST mentioned in national magazine”

Dan Harris on June 30th, 2005 at 3:04 pm

Speaking of bloggers…there is short story in todays chron about the short changing of the crime lab going back 15 years. Hmmm, 2005 - 15 = 1990. Isn’t that when Lee. P. Brown showed up in Houston?
Dawn Wolf on June 30th, 2005 at 4:15 pm

I’m still shaking my head in disbelief. But it nice to be noticed.
Kevin D. Taylor on June 30th, 2005 at 4:20 pm

So all I want to know is, was it the barefoot blonde chick on the cover that interviewed you?

If so, no wonder you played ‘Tigger’ (”I’m the ONLY ONE”) for all it was worth.
Shannon on June 30th, 2005 at 4:30 pm

A magazine for bureaucrats? How sad Benzion couldn’t convince the interviewer to blow-off the subject of the article and allow him to give the subscribers a piece of his mind about “Governing”. Perhaps they would accept a long article from you now—David?
Leslie on June 30th, 2005 at 5:19 pm

Congratulations on the mention! Y’all deserve every kind word that is ever written for giving us one more voice.
john on July 2nd, 2005 at 5:13 pm

If only they’d mentioned George Bush isn’t conservative and most people don’t know the difference.
While he’s not B.J.Clinton, which is GOOD; he’s also not any good, which is BAD.
And Texas is way more conservative than California, for example. But anyplace has a mixture of people—even the so-called red & blue states are really mostly heavily mixed.
No modern politician can get there without having certain contacts, which the Bush Cabal definitely has.
SO who will run against Hillary? See, it’s important to have term limits, to clear out the corrupted bureaucrats, staff, brain trusts, advisors, etc.

DAVE RESPONDS: Yep, there’s a lot of mixed colors in this election map. Mostly red, though.
Caren on August 15th, 2005 at 6:42 pm

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