who listens to BlogHeads???
Posted on 07/13/2008 6:32:13 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...In fall 2006, political scientists, including us, representing about 30 universities conducted a survey of 16,000 Americans, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. The survey asked respondents whether they read blogs and, if so, which ones. We analyzed the answers, and the result is the first detailed portrait of political blog readers.
About 34% of the respondents said they read blogs, but only 14% named at least one blog that focuses on politics. Who are these political blog readers?
Compared with those who don't read political blogs, they are more likely to have a college degree and, obviously, are more interested in politics. They are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, rather than as independents, and are more likely to call themselves liberals or conservatives rather than moderates. Political blog readers are more likely to vote, give money to candidates or simply talk about politics. They live and breathe politics.
It is their political passion that most distinguishes readers of political blogs. In terms of gender, race, age and income, they are not much different from those who do not read blogs.
...They also tend to visit blogs that share their viewpoint. Think of such blogs as their red meat. Indeed, 94% read only blogs on one side of the ideological spectrum, with 90% of liberals and 90% of conservatives sticking to like-minded blogs. Self-proclaimed "moderates" don't blog shop either, with 89% exclusively reading either liberal or conservative blogs.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
obviously the los angeles times last week did not read the
free republic blogs that
showed iran’s missles were photoshopped!
and, so they printed the photoshopped photos on the front page, above the fold.
how embarrassing!
When it has hard consequences.
This survey is almost two years old. It would be interesting to see how much change there has been since Fall 2006.
I think that is when it is least objective.
And that includes a few at FR.
Shades of Alvin Toffler.
It suits you.
The idea is not to get mass readership, but to slip these ideas into circulation.
This is kind of like the Velvet Underground. As used to be said, they sold very few records, but everyone who bought one started a band.
That article was nothing more than a feel good effort from an influential newspaper frightened about losing it’s influence.
Notice they didn’t compare the increase in blog or internet news reading with their own decline in subscriptions. That would be a telling side by side stat. They also don’t mention that ten years ago NOBODY was reading blogs, now 34% do and 14% get their political news from the internet. They also don’t address the non-blog influence on news and politics from the internet.
It’s nothing more than the LA Times whistling past the graveyard.
who listens to BlogHeads???
It will "balkanize" politics between liars and honest men. Between delusion and reality.
Both the honest man and the liar are concerned with the truth. One to propagate it, and the other to subvert it.
IOW. Liars and the deluded will propagate delusions and clear thinking honest men will propagate reality.
The deluded are provisioned with loyalties, metrics, truisms, and language that render them incapable of recognizing the truth even if they seek it. They have no basis for knowing what honesty requires.
For example.
On the Ramos Compean issue, one could get their info from LAT, or from FR-WND-JBS, or from the trial transcript at the DOJ website. Or some combination there-of.
Those who don't want to hear what the transcript says, won't read it.
Another example.
Reality, as determined at FR, depends on the thread. If a thread is bumped up many times and cross-linked to other threads, it is reality. OTOH, a thread that no one bumps or replies to dies away quickly and is not reality.
I would say it suits you more than me.
In the post-modernist age, people do not believe in such a thing as objective truth. This is very strong among the left but this mindset may also eventually affect the right. I do not think it is possible for most people to deny objective reality without our society falling into a third-world status. The college-indoctrinated (I do not say educated) people who claim that there is no objective reality are modern-day savages, and they will un-do thousands of years of learning.
“who listens to BlogHeads???”
Perhaps Dan Rather wishes he would’ve!
Isn't that the objective?
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