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January 18, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Blog Readership On Capitol Hill
What are the favorite blogs on Capitol Hill? Here's the list, based on a survey from January to March of 2006.
10) Tie: Eschaton, Instapundit, Power Line, Salon.com blogs,
The Washington Note
9) The Raw Story
8) MyDD
7) Tie: The Corner, The Fix
6) Tie: The Note, RedState
5) Hotline On Call
4) Tie: Drudge Report, The Huffington Post
3) Talking Points Memo
2) Wonkette
1) Daily Kos
And that's just one of the many telling nuggets in a new paper made available through the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at George Washington University. The report is the senior honors thesis of T. Neil Sroka.
The survey also answered who on the Hill is reading the blogs. Not surprisingly, only 11.5 percent of actual lawmakers are blog readers, while 93.6 percent of their senior flacks keep one eye on the blogosphere. The rest of the numbers: 34.6 percent of junior communications staffers, 51.3 percent of senior legislative assistants, and 47.4 percent of junior legislative assistants.
"While blogs generally continue to play second fiddle to more established forms of media, the data we have collected strongly suggests that blogs are more likely to be read by senior staffers than junior staffers, a fact which implies that they may be more instrumental in policy analysis and decision-making processes than we might otherwise assume," the paper said.
The report is chock-full of other interesting tidbits, so click through for more. (Hat tip to Henry Copeland of Blogads.)
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