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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
YOU'RE an incredibly foolish argument!
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Touche.
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Most of the blogs tend to be polemics on the childish side. That never stopped talk radio from being VERY effective, so why would it stop on the internet???
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Effective at WHAT? Getting people to act like children? Do you think people actually shape their opinions based on blogs? Or do they go to blogs, type their rah-rah-rah in the comments section, and then go out and vote EXACTLY the same way they'd have gone out and voted if they had never heard of the innernets? I don't think blogs are reaching a new audience. If you are looking up blogs on the internet, you are already politically active.
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I think Preechr actually did a good job already of answering your question, but the reason I brought up Trent Lott is that Blogs played a (in)famous role in keeping his racism stuff alive, and not allowing to die down. Traditional media has a pretty short attention span if the issue isn't a "holy shit" story.
Think of blogs as the letters to the editor page in your local paper. They don't necessarily make a good point, true, but they keep the point circulating.
Think talk radio is to Monica Lewinsky, as blogs are to (whatever the Bush administration supposedly did wrong this week).