March 28, 2005

Did Hugh skew it?

Over at Personal Democracy Forum, Micah Sifry reviews Hugh Hewitt's book Blog (about the political blogosphere) and finds it useful but hopelessly biased toward the right. This shouldn't be surprising, given Hewitt's day job as a right-wing talk radio host, but it's still somewhat disconcerting given the misleadingly neutral-sounding title of the book. It seems that one thing that hasn't changed about the Web is the way people writing about tend to model Narcissus, gazing into it like a big mirror.

Posted by xian at March 28, 2005 5:58 PM

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