Right V. Left…Blogs
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in BloggingHoward Kurtz has a breakdown of how the left leaning political blogs came about.
What the September 11 attacks were to the warbloggers, though, the Democratic losses in the 2002 Congressional elections were to the left. Up to that point, though there were plenty of lefty blogs, the blogosphere tilted pretty solidly to the center-(libertarian) right.
And how they prolifereated:
But after that, the left worked hard to catch up. It didn’t hurt that the Democrats faced a contested primary season, which drew lots of Internet activists into the blogging fray. Between the Howard Dean campaign and the activism associated with anti-incumbency, the lefty side of the blogosphere expanded. And the character changed. When my own InstaPundit blog was newer, people sometimes wondered who would be the “InstaPundit of the left.” But what the left wanted more than punditry was activism, and sites like DailyKos are more like miniature political machines, concentrating on fundraising and get-out- the-vote efforts in a way that few right-wing sites do. Though talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt is starting to fill that niche, and no doubt others will, too, the right doesn’t have anything to match Kos this election cycle.
Indeed. Balance is good. But let’s hope that this doesn’t get out of hand.
Oops. Too late.
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