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...most of us still need to get our news—and increasingly, we’re turning to blogs. Estimates vary widely, but there are definitely more than 3.5 million denizens of the blogosphere. And plenty of them have taken on a life of their own. Instapundit, a conservative blog, gets 233,000 views a day on average, and a more liberal counterpart, the Daily Kos, lures 324,000 daily. But can these blogs, which we are visiting in ever-increasing numbers, really be trusted...
...even Greta Van Susteren’s. Many of the most prominent blogs these days are linkers, where the blog entries consist of pithy comments introducing links to varied, yet monolithically partisan, news sources. They exist as media digests for the lazy but opinionated. The aforementioned Instapundit, for example, heavily favors linking to conservative media outlets. Unlike the amateur journalists and storytellers, linkers do not attempt to transcend mainstream media, only to navigate them. By not challenging the assertions and assumptions of the mainstream, these blogs do a disservice to their readers...
...most influential libertarians in the country. At Harvard, biology postdoc Charles Murtaugh runs a blog offering conservative viewpoints on developments ranging from science to politics to culture. And Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, vaulted to instant influence last October when he set up his Instapundit blog, which is updated almost frenetically on a range of political issues that defies categorization. (Any of these blogs can be found by typing their names into the Google search engine; all are the top link for the given keywords...