Via Nick Denton:  The British Pub New Statesmen ran an editorial bemoaning the lack of "left wing" representation in the blogging community and issuing a call-to-action for more left minded individuals

The article was interesting on several fronts -- First, for recognizing the impact bloggers have already had on the "big media" world:

Why have Americans started to vilify the Guardian? Why does the actor John Malkovich want to kill the Independent foreign correspondent Robert Fisk? And why is the Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman writing with a new-found attention to detail? Answer: Fisk, Krugman and the Guardian are all victims of the latest web-publishing phenomenon: blogging. 

...Two bloggers in particular have astonishing influence: the journalist Andrew Sullivan, with his eponymous site; and a formerly obscure Tennessee law professor called Glenn Reynolds, who runs InstaPundit. There are no equivalents on the left; indeed, there are precious few left-wing blogs at all. Both Reynolds and Sullivan are libertarian, rather than conservative. And both despise the Guardian. As Wyeth Ruthven, publisher of a rare centre-left American blog, says: "No one here had even heard of the Guardian until Sullivan began his personal jihad." 

...And this is the blogger's way: like raptors, they hunt in packs, gain momentum, pick enemies, vent spleen, and never, ever, hold back.

...It is no exaggeration to say that the current disconnection between America and Europe over Iraq has been exacerbated by the blasts of bloggers.

A little disturbing, however, was the degree to which *he* was outright insulting towards the blog community's mental acuity

...The medium lends itself to short, sharp, witty commentary of the sort often associated with raging libertarians.

And more disturbing, several different descriptions of how the Blog medium results in shallow debate and fact finding. (I always thought the interactivity and availability of link material from the WWW actually led to DEEPER debate and more thorough fact finding?)

He does spark a few questions.   I wouldn't align "bloggers vs. old media" on a right/left scale but rather on a statist / non-statist scale.    In any case, the question is still why is blogdom so generally Libertarian-biased (with small vacillations into either the left or right wing camp) whereas big media tends to be more big govt biased (with similar vacilations into both camps)?   I've got a a few personal theories that I'll expound on some other time...