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Sep. 30 2009 - 2:45 am | 4 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Thomas Friedman, on the other hand

By MATT STEINGLASS

…is an establishment old-media journalist who has a perfectly solid summary of what the advent of the blogosphere does to political discourse:

a blogosphere that at its best enriches our debates, adding new checks on the establishment, and at its worst coarsens our debates to a whole new level, giving a new power to anonymous slanderers to send lies around the world.

Was that so hard?

 
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