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Did an interview with the BBC's David Cornock today for this week's Dragon's Eye on the likely impact of blogging and tweeting on the general election. I told David that I thought that it wasn't likely to be as great as some bloggers thought.   It seems to me that, for the most part, the electorate doesn't tweet or read blogs and still takes its news from the established media.   However, journalists do follow Twitter avidly (a large part of my followers appear to be journos), so the new media may well influence the speed at which election issues break and develop.   Furthermore, there may be many more gaffes of the sort committed by the Telford MP, Labour's David Wright, who in an incautious moment put out a somewhat less than tasteful tweet that met with general opprobrium, as a consequence of which he appears not to have ventured onto Twitter since 15 February. The...