Trump's Senior Political Advisor, Corey Lewandowski; shares a toast and encouragement to Oklahoma's citizen journalists.
In 2014, a handful of bloggers got together to enhance the communications or the Tea Party and several 'flavors' of conservative grassroots advocacy. I stepped up and agreed to set up the website and vast hours of coding to draw an aggregate feed of any and all citizen journalists and groups who have information to share with fellow Oklahomans.
In the past 6 years we've grown from a single page website to a 10-section news digest with content of a vast spectrum of philosophies about the role of govt. We currently have perhaps 80 partner bloggers who simply make their feeds available for the bots at SoonerPolitics to generate into opening paragraphs of articles. The readers then click through to the originating author's website to read the full story and perhaps subscribe to that website for notifications and/or email bulletins. While we're becoming known across the state as a reliable political platform, it's encouraging and inspiring to find out that Washington and several other places are reading our 'online newspaper' to stay connected to the heartland. |
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This evening I had a surprise video from just such a DC political force. the Trump 2016 national campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, sent me a bit of a 'pick-me-up' greeting. I want to share it with my partner citizen journalists, who deserve this notoriety just as much. I want to publicly thank Mr. Lewandowski for the kind words and recognition, and I commend him for seeing the value of grassroots communications and citizen journalism. It's a smart thing to do, going into the general election of 2020.
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