By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, February 12, 2007 at 6:08 AM
From reporter Dave Helling's story in Sunday's Kansas City Star:
Antonio French's St. Louis-based Web site, www.pubdef.net, is one of the best-known and most frequently viewed political Web sites in Missouri. French shoots, edits and posts dozens of videos of candidates and officeholders each week — often catching them in embarrassing situations that provide fodder for their opponents.
"I think video and blogs have introduced the 24-hour news cycle to local politics," French said. "That’s good for the public, but possibly bad for the politicians who don’t think before they speak." Last year, French shot video that became an issue in the Claire McCaskill-Jim Talent campaign.
Antonio French's St. Louis-based Web site, www.pubdef.net, is one of the best-known and most frequently viewed political Web sites in Missouri. French shoots, edits and posts dozens of videos of candidates and officeholders each week — often catching them in embarrassing situations that provide fodder for their opponents.
"I think video and blogs have introduced the 24-hour news cycle to local politics," French said. "That’s good for the public, but possibly bad for the politicians who don’t think before they speak." Last year, French shot video that became an issue in the Claire McCaskill-Jim Talent campaign.
6 Comments:
Has Antonio ever been mentioned in the mighty Post Dispatch? Or the St. Louis Journalism Review?
2/12/2007 2:14 PM
Yup. A Post-Dispatch article last December mentioned PubDef as one of the "newer blogs" following a path pioneered locally by stars Roy Temple and John Combest.
The same article also mentioned ACC's blog and Slay's website.
2/12/2007 2:32 PM
Im happy for french. Maybe he can hire me pretty soon.
2/12/2007 2:43 PM
French has one problem, his blog is not anonymous. The link to trace anonymous postings are shared with others. So check and see who sent this one. Word of caution to the public.
2/12/2007 10:25 PM
Anony #3, let me assure you of two things:
One, when you post comments on this site you are doing so on Blogger's web site, not Pub Def. Blogger then posts the comments to Pub Def. I have no way of reading your IP Address or anything else -- unlike services like Wordpress and Moveable Type which are used by STLToday.com, The Arch City Chronicle, Urban Review, and other popular local blogs.
Two, very few anonymous comments have ever been so interesting that I really cared who wrote them.
2/12/2007 10:45 PM
I'm sure ADF has the time to hunt down all the anonymous posters.
I here he hangs them over the balcony Shug night style.... He's at the door right now!
2/13/2007 10:38 AM
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