Naivete of the blogger world...

MSNBC's foolishness

Published on October 8, 2004 By Draginol In Current Events

Listening to Hardball right now and Joe Trippie, of MSNBC, is trying to claim that liberals (now called "progressive") dominate the blog. What a laugh. Anyone familiar with the blog, for good or bad, know that it's largely a conservative medium.

The the top blog sites are almost exclusively conservative. There's a handful of exceptions but it's not very close.

It's always interesting to see guys like Chris Mathews trying to argue that the blogsphere is somehow leftwing simply because the Democratic Underground (not a blog site btw) is better at flooding the MSNBC on-line polls than conservative sites are. Flooding on-line polls is..well so 1990ish.

Comments

thatoneguyinslc

on Oct 08, 2004

Hell Drag, even i agree with you here. I don't think that guy has ever read JU....

d3adz0mbie

on Oct 08, 2004

Liberals flooding online polls is childish, and reinforces your previous blog comparing conservatives to parents and liberals to children.

Good call Draginol.

mgosh

on Oct 08, 2004

Let him make an account on Joe user and just observe the corresondance for a week. He'll have a better feel upon what the blogger community thinks.

stevendedalus

on Oct 09, 2004

Chris Matthews left his liberal bones with Tip O'Neill.

Lotherius

on Oct 09, 2004

I've found blogs to be fairly balanced. Admittedly, there seems to be a conservative bias on JoeUser - at least the users I read (which are few). However, I normally frequent LiveJournal, and it seems a bit more liberal. However, everall, it seems quite balanced.

What there -is- that isn't in "traditional media", is that the extremists on both sides get to have a voice. I've seen some extremely conservative viewpoints that are offensive, but at the same time, I've seen people so far left that they're falling off the edge of the world. I think the "adjustment" that's going to have to be made by the blogging world is for people to learn that not everything they read can be trusted - and this is especially the case when everybody has a voice. Some people, I've observed, are still in the "If it was worthy of being published, it's trustworthy" mentality, and that doesnt' work in Blogs.

Finally, we do have to remember that the online culture is still a subset of American culture, and doesn't represent all aspects of it. It's mostly two groups - the middle class and intelligensia, and both of those groups have their own places of dominance. There is still a portion of culture not represented online, and that can be seen when polls conducted online are often *way* off of polls which are conducted in traditional methods... That difference is most evident in blogs.

Draginol

on Oct 09, 2004

JoeUser definitely doesn't tilt conservatively in terms of quanity of posts and its population. It's just that since I am a conservative and I feature more of my own articles than others it gives the home page a slightly conservative tone.

Here is the blogstreet most influential blogs:

http://www.blogstreet.com/biq100.html

It's not a partisan site, it's just traffic stats.

Of those sites that are political, nearly all of them are conservative. Now, community blog sites, like this, have more diversity, but that's often because conservatives - such as myself - provide a place for others to freely create blogs.

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