Wash Park Prophet: "You can't get the right answers about the political impact of blogs, unless you ask the right questions.
"In his May 26, 2006 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 'Political Blogs: the New Iowa?' (B6-B8), David D. Perlmutter, an LSU Baton Rogue associate professor of mass communication who blogs at Policy By Blog commits the cardinal sin of political scientists. While his analysis and evidence in support of that evidence is solid, his assumptions and the questions he is asking are the wrong ones.
"His biggest blunder comes when he states: 'Probably the most important area of research on blogs today is what role they will have in the presidential election of 2008.'
"If there is any place where blogs will be particularly unimportant, it is the 2008 Presidential election. Why?
"Blogs are tools for communicating information. The information conveyed may have collateral impacts, and the information communicated may have spillover effects, but fundamentally, what happens when you write a blog is that you send information to someone, and fundamentally, what happens when you read a blog is that you receive information."
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