On the Texas Politics Today episode on Wednesday, July 16, we joined Markos Moulitsas, founder and chief author of Daily Kos, in a wide-ranging discussion of how the blogosphere emerged as an important force in progressive politics and how they are affecting national, state and local politics in this election year. One of the points in our discussion was a contrast between the conservative/Republican domination of talk radio and the progressive/Democratic domination of the "netroots." As reported by co-host David Kobierowski here, here and here, Markos said, "the right has a top-down approach to governing, where the left has a more democratic/bottom-up approach that allows for blogging to work."
This morning on "Weekend Edition," Scott Simon spoke with Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post reporter on technology and politics, about the role of the blogosphere in modern politics. One of the points Vargas made: that Republicans are more top-down and Democrats more, well, democratic. Sounds like Vargas heard our interview with Markos or read our posts about the interview.
Take a listen here.
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