Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, May 19, 2008

Ask and ye will receive better messaging

By Libby [*Link repaired]



If only we had seen more of this kind of citizen journalism for the last 15 months. Goddess knows we won't get it from the legacy media. Blogher interviews Obama on women's issues, wherein he answers 12 questions submitted by the Blogher community.


I thought the interview was really well conducted and Obama came across as informed and geniune. But make your own mind. Blogher also invited McCain and Hillary to participate in interviews. McCain, as I understand it, refused. Hillary hasn't responded yet. She should accept the invite. It's a good forum for her to make her case.



Meanwhile, keeping an eye on the real battle, here's Robert Greenwald's latest video take down of McNasty, The Real McCain - Part Two*. Now that's the kind of messaging we really need. Pass it on. The media surely won't.



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  1. cheflovesbeerMay 19, 2008 at 6:12 AM

    Libby, the R Greenwald link goes to the BlogHer interview.

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  2. LibbyMay 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM

    Oh damn. I was in a hurry. Thanks for the heads up. I'll fix it.

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