A new Democratic, left-leaning blog, Two Cathedrals, has entered the San Diego blog-o-fray in recent days.
The website refers to itself as “an organization…” — sounds more robust than simply a weblog — “…committed to reasserting the role of progressive principles in San Diego’s communities and government,” and “as a centralized resource for analysis, research, organizing and communications outreach towards building a strong progressive foundation for San Diego,” while functioning “as a hub for progressive activists, organizations, elected officials and non-political organizers to become better equipped to positively transform the City of San Diego and the region.”
Best wishes to Two Cathedrals, and I say it very sincerely…as I would to anyone involved in providing a forum for increased discussion and debate about San Diego politics and policy-making, regardless of beliefs.
Both SD CityBeat and Voice of San Diego have made mention of the new effort, noting it comparatively to San Diego Rostra as an additional ideologically-based blog, while certainly not making a direct philosophical comparison. Note Kelly Davis’ January 7 entry at CityBeat’s Last Blog on Earth…
“In our fall 2010 campaign column, “Turds and Blossoms,” we awarded the San Diego County Republican Party a bunch of blossoms for its aggressive social-media strategy. Indeed, you’ll get barely a peep outta the San Diego Dems. The Republicans, on the other hand, have a master-tweeter in GOP chair Tony Krvaric, as well as a virtual gathering place of sorts at the blog San Diego Rostra.
“Not to say the Dems are totally useless. But they could do better. Enter TwoCathedrals.com. Launching tomorrow, the site seeks to be ‘a progressive voice to advocate for a comprehensive vision of all that the city could be, and to battle against those who attempt to reduce the city to as little as it can be.’”
Krvaric may be the master-tweeter, but Rostra is the master gathering place for San Diego conservatives, apparently, at least virtually.
Yesterday, Voice‘s Scott Lewis also referenced Two Cathedrals and Rostra in the Morning Report…
“Two Cathedrals joins San Diego Rostra, the right-wing forum, in trying to provide a platform for people to share their points of view from that angle … More and more, groups are realizing that they can’t hope to get their message out via a media that still is losing resources and control over public discourse. Rather than just passing along messages from partisans and activists, we believe professional journalists need to focus on making sense of what these leaders say and finding out the things they don’t want to say.”
Of course, it may come down to which of Rostra‘s bloggers may be doing the writing to determine whether one can make sense of it or not — but that kidding about “Barkeep” aside — it is appreciated when some of the professionally-paid media entities take note of the efforts of those that are doing it purely out of a passion for the politics and the pen.
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How on earth could they have ever come up with such an original concept….
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Jeff. Welcome to Two Cathedrals and may our blogs provide much inspiration and fodder for each other. Everyone knows your game improves when you’ve got a skilled player on the other side of the net!