My friend on the left is certainly correct about one thing: poli-blogs have been divided into partisan echo chambers. However, the convening of like-minded people does not automatically call for a community bereft of ideas.
Look at it this way: I'm a huge baseball fan. Say I surround myself with other rabid fans who agree that the pitching staff of our team needs a shakeup. As public-relations blogger Eric Eggertson puts it, that doesn't necessarily close my mind to alternate points of view. Rather, it plugs me into a network with a common point of view that spreads information and opinions very efficiently.
So why is it a good thing when blogs function as echo chambers? …
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