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2006-06-11 Fifth Column

New York Times Claims Blogosphere is Mostly for Democrats

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-11 18:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rantburg is where on the list?

Posted by no mo uro 2006-06-11 18:48|| 2006-06-11 18:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Rantburg must be 21 (and climbing), Fred even has hacker attacks now so he must be "telling it on the mountain".

This is an old liberal method from way back. The Jeddi Mind Trick.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-11 19:06|| 2006-06-11 19:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred's had script kiddie attacks for simply ages, though. And although there have been times when he was getting nearly 10,000 hits a day, I think Rantburg is a bit esoteric for most tastes. I mean, some of us are registered Democrats, some are avowed atheists, and some of us don't own guns. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-11 19:41|| 2006-06-11 19:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I would call Rantburg a "hard news" blog. It is almost comparable to a newswire in presentation, yet is focused, without (most of) the fluff & puff stories that are the sign of a slow news day.

Also, like a newswire, it is a "collection" site, a "primary" site, with its contributors acting like a hundred editors to select links that in their opinion are the most newsworthy.

Many blogs are reliant on other blogs for their news, they don't do the surfing themselves. This makes them second tier.

Political blogs are unavoidably as much opinion as news, so while they may be more popular, it is the popularity of "CNN Crossfire", where information is just to feed the argument, rather that to stand on its own.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-11 20:28|| 2006-06-11 20:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Any blog that has both JosephMendiola and Gentle as contributors is truly ecumenical.

Posted by RWV 2006-06-11 20:28|| 2006-06-11 20:28|| Front Page Top

#6 On the site lists were everything (not just politics but games downloads music, google, purchases, the whole nine yards) is counted rantburg shares are in the 70ks which is not bad.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-11 21:26|| 2006-06-11 21:26|| Front Page Top

#7 we have a singular crowd here....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-11 22:49|| 2006-06-11 22:49|| Front Page Top

#8 No, no, Frank G, some of us are married. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-11 23:19|| 2006-06-11 23:19|| Front Page Top

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