How Many Blogs Does the World Need?
The campaign turned us all into news junkies. But how many blogs does the world really need?
By Michael Kinsley Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
Illustration by David Gothard for TIME
People had been predicting it for years, and in 2008, it finally happened. This was the first presidential election dominated by the Internet. Those ancient debates about whether the Internet lowers journalistic standards and drags the Mainstream Media into the slime have become irrelevant. For a large chunk of the electorate--the young chunk--the Internet has become the major source of information.
But while the chin pullers can hold their symposiums about the quality of that information, it's the quantity that's truly remarkable--and oppressive. Way back in 2004, when we last held an election, no one was complaining that there wasn't enough...