Posted on 08/22/2005 11:45:50 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
John G. Roberts Jr. will end up the most-scrutinized Supreme Court selection in history, due in large part to the Internet, which has made it easier to look at his writings and to rally for or against his nomination.
Thousands of pages of his writings are available on the National Archives' Web site, and every opinion that Judge Roberts has written during two years on a federal appeals court also is available.
Unlike earlier nominations, this time the press is no longer the sole source of information. This time, senators, lawyers and laymen alike can dissect Judge Roberts' record firsthand and share their thoughts with the world.
"There are 15 million fact-checkers out there," said Pete Snyder, founder of New Media Strategies, whose company tracks online forums and Web logs, or blogs. "They're taking an article, they're picking it apart and trying to find the flak.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
The key to the future of the Internet's effects on politics is going to devolve to the control of the search engines. The temptation will be strong for search engines like Yahoo and Google to slant the search results on politically sensitive keywords.
And for them to scrub the cache of some sites.
Google really does seem to prematurely scrub caches of sites that are embarrassing for the Left.
"The key to the future of the Internet's effects on politics is going to devolve to the control of the search engines. The temptation will be strong for search engines like Yahoo and Google to slant the search results on politically sensitive keywords."
That is why I use Clusty and not Google.
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