Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Blogs: The bourgeois?

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, September 18, 2008

The elite media have failed, according to prominent political commentator Arianna Huffington, and it’s up to blogs to correct them.

Huffington — who identified Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine as the first blogger — argued her point before about 200 students at a Yale Political Union debate Wednesday night.

She used her address to speak in favor of the resolution “Blogs are Good for Democracy.”

Like Paine, Huffington said, bloggers “challenge the conventional wisdom.”

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