Poll finds polyblogs aren’t so popular
David Johnson March 11th, 2008
Depending on how you look at it, this is either good or bad news for the grumpy newsasaurs that are plodding through the tarpits of journalism. A new Harris poll shows that most Americans don’t read political blogs. I’m sure we’ve all heard the “blogosphere” dismissed and narrowly defined as an echochamber of political opinion with poor ethics and no facts at some time or another. But of course, we all know that only represents one niche of a much wider realm of content and voices. The poll has some interesting findings that burst certain bubbles: it turns out that more people over 65 frequent polyblogs than do younger readers. Of the total sample, 56 percent never read them, and only 22 percent responded that they read them with any frequency.
4 Comments Add your own
1. Safran | March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’ll take 22 percent of an audience any day. How is this bad news? What percentage of Americans do you suppose read about politics in any context?
2. josh | March 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am
somehow I get a very different impression when they’re called poly-blogs instead of poli-blogs .
3. discreet_chaos | March 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Josh - I can think of a few polys who blog. Perhaps the best was a girl who supposedly lived in the French countryside with her two guys and their kid, but she eventually revealed that she was just a character. While on the other hand, I know that the polys down the road are real because not only have I seen their blogs, but only the grouping which contains a female with status in the community are the ones who try to keep it a secret.
4. oakling | March 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I used to have a polyblog, but then it grew up and hopped away to its own lilypad.
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