May 8, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Fiji: Politics: Congress: Greenwich Time: Tranfo recently penned a column titled "The Impotence of Chris Shays," blasting the Republican for what he described as an inability to win pork-barrel money for local projects from a GOP-controlled Congress.
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May 8, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Fiji: Politics: Congress: Greenwich Time: Tranfo recently penned a column titled "The Impotence of Chris Shays," blasting the Republican for what he described as an inability to win pork-barrel money for local projects from a GOP-controlled Congress.
Tranfo recently penned a column titled "The Impotence of Chris Shays," blasting the Republican for what he described as an inability to win pork-barrel money for local projects from a GOP-controlled Congress.
Tranfo recently penned a column titled "The Impotence of Chris Shays," blasting the Republican for what he described as an inability to win pork-barrel money for local projects from a GOP-controlled Congress.
Greenwich bloggers join the opinion fray on the Web
By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer
Published May 8 2005
From the private confines of a home in Greenwich to the communal atmosphere of laptop-filled coffeehouses, a new breed of muckraker is dishing the dirt on everybody and everything, from Joe Lieberman to Greenwich gossip to the high cost of gasoline. They're bloggers.
They maintain Internet bulletin boards, posting their opinions for all to see and planting the seeds of conspiracy theories and campaign barbs among a loyal following of fellow commentators and the mainstream media. Some call themselves bona fide journalists, and others are resigned to the label of political operative.
"Anything and everything is fair game, that's for sure," said Joseph Tranfo, 41, a civil attorney who lives in Greenwich and maintains Benedictblog.com, one of an estimated 9.5 million blogs worldwide.
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Tranfo recently penned a column titled "The Impotence of Chris Shays," blasting the Republican for what he described as an inability to win pork-barrel money for local projects from a GOP-controlled Congress.
"Christopher Shays is a completely ineffective and utterly powerless political hack," Tranfo wrote on his blog in early February. "The curtain should have dropped on Shays' 'Republican with a conscience' act long ago."
Shays gave little credence to blogs, other than to say they were a form of free political speech.
"They're basically tools of real partisans, and I think the extremes of both ends of the political spectrum," said Shays, who also described blogs as gossipy forums fraught with inaccuracies. "I have no interest in reading partisan blogs. I have information overload as it is."
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