There’s been quite a bit of blog bashing lately. Scott McLemee scoffed at the notion of a blog implosion last week. Today, my conservative daddy sent me a link to a post from Power Line where they respond to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Rago. Rago writes,

Every conceivable belief is on the scene, but the collective prose, by and large, is homogeneous: A tone of careless informality prevails; posts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic; complexity and complication are eschewed; the humor is cringe-making, with irony present only in its conspicuous absence; arguments are solipsistic; writers traffic more in pronouncement than persuasion . . .

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