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Political Wire links to many articles and comments about the birth of the political weblog–a tool of grassroots communication between politician and voter.
While I think the use of weblogs as tools of political communication is generally a good thing, just because the news media isn’t mediating the communication does not mean that such weblogs are unmediated.
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the New York Times and many bloggers
I read the New York Times online version almost everyday. I also read a lot of other online newspapers. Then I read many of the blogs on my blogroll and many of the blogs on their blogrolls. I get opinions…