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8/26/2004

Oh, That Liberal Blogosphere

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 12:15 pm

The good news at that least they’re trying to show some respect to the Blogosphere. The bad news is the paper is so skewed to the left that they couldn’t even find a remotely balanced list of blogs to link to.

4 Responses to “Oh, That Liberal Blogosphere”

  1. aphrael Says:
    August 26th, 2004 at 5:17 pm

    That seems to include both center-left and center-right blogs but no far-left or far-right blogs. What’s your problem with it, exactly?

  2. Xrlq Says:
    August 26th, 2004 at 5:30 pm

    Atrios, Howard Dean and the Daily Kotze are hardly what I’d call center-left, but even if they are, doesn’t a ratio of 7 center-left blogs to 4 center-right strike you as a wee bit skewed?

  3. aphrael Says:
    August 27th, 2004 at 12:08 am

    Hmm. Three of them I don’t know anything about and had assumed they were centrist. I think Atrios and Kos are definitely centre-left. You have a point both with Howard Dean and the overall number.

  4. John A. Kalb Says:
    August 27th, 2004 at 9:32 pm

    Aphrael,

    I don’t know that much about Atrios’ ideology because he doesn’t say that much about it.

    But I do know one thing: “extremism” has become a matter not of beliefs but one of attitude, or perhaps of partisanship. Howard Dean, for example, is pretty moderate on a lot of issues; it just happens that he yells a lot and makes loud accusations. Under these standards, both Atrios and Kos are pretty far out on the left.

 

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