OxBlog’s David Adesnik notes this this Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial:
Those perched on the political fringes have found a home on the Internet. True believers of one stripe or another, no longer content to merely bore spouses and neighbors with their nutty opinions, can now spew forth on their own blogs, thereby playing a pivotal role in creating the polarized climate that dominates debate on nearly every national issue. There are blogs devoted to the right, blogs devoted to the left, blogs devoted to exposing the vast and devious media conspiracy, blogs defending and attacking, well, almost anything that mirrors one individual’s view of the world.
If Hitler were alive today, he’d have his own blog.
The occasion for this wit? The launching of the newspaper’s own blog, of course. Go figure.
Meanwhile, the folks at MSNBC have set up Hardblogger, the “mother of all weblogs.”
To each their own, but don’t many of these “big media” folks already have sufficient platform to reach the masses? Seems like some of this corporate-funded blogging is largely a marketing endeavor.