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To: Dayuhan who wrote (54014)	7/13/2004 12:31:08 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793611

I like Drezner… I seldom read the blog, because the blog format doesn’t excite me, but I try to read what he publishes. As you can tell, I "source" from over 100 blogs. They work as a filter for me, finding articles of interest. Some of them are excellent writers. And they duplicate what interests all of them, which gives me a good feedback. They do a terrific job of fisking the media. They are causing a lot of tempers to rise in press rooms, and are disliked. Since the top ones are all reading each other, they get corrected almost instantly if they goof. "Blogads" did a survey of readership, and got over 17,000 responses. The demographics are smart people with money, over 35, not kids, as many advertisers thought. Because of this, the advertising has picked up. "Instapundit" is now making over 4K a month, but even the best of the rest are at about 1K. One of the best new ones, that I think you would enjoy, is Thomas Barnett's, author of The Pentagon's New Map. He is at thomaspmbarnett.com

To: Dayuhan who wrote (54014)	7/13/2004 10:25:33 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793611

The marketplace of ideas can be a very powerful thing, but when it degenerates into a shrieking food fight, very little wisdom emerges. I don’t see the threat to American democracy today coming from either the right or the left exclusively, but from excessive polarization, and from the domination of discourse by extremists on both sides. Words of wisdom, Steven. I have only one caveat. One of the extremists is the House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay. With a helluva lot of political power. Quotes from DeLay are classic right wing extremism. And the recent revelations from the growing stockpile of Enron documents makes it even clearer the role he has played in pushing American politics to the very far right.