Furthermore, in the earlier days blogs could express complex opinions.
Blogs can still express complex opinions. The political impact of a figure like Glenn Greenwald who writes long blog posts is much higher than it was 5 years ago.
True, its possible the political influence of blogs has increased, but as a percentage of online politics blogs have massivly decreased
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