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.
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