From The Monkey Cage...
Political scientists and political theorists debate the relationship between participation and deliberation among citizens with different political viewpoints.
Blogs provide an important testing ground for their claims.
We find that blog readers gravitate toward blogs that accord with their political beliefs. Few read blogs on both the left and right of the ideological spectrum. Furthermore, those who read left-wing blogs and those who read right-wing blogs are ideologically far apart. Blog readers are more polarized than either non-blog-readers or consumers of various television news programs, and roughly as polarized as US senators. Blog readers also participate more in politics than nonblog readers.
Guilty as charged.
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