Blogs
Richard says:

Your Luddite pal got it right.
I hope you will keep going on the topic that a preponderance of blogs "work for the bad guys." I'd put it a wee bit more bluntly - as in blogger expenses and salary are paid by the bad guys. Sure, it costs almost nothing to broadcast one, and yes they are multiplying like fungi, but it's quite a trick to get them linked to popular web sites and even more importantly into the mainstream media - unless you have money and influence. No exposure, no importance.
Dig deeply enough and I'm sure you'll find that many, perhaps most, of the politically oriented blogs function like the fictionalized movie critics created by big studios to sell rotten movies. Plant a favorable account, then get it quoted in the mainstream media you either rent, dupe or control outright. Pay the lowly blogger for their time (covertly of course), but mostly pump them up by getting him/her linked and cited. Karl Rove certainly figured this gambit out years ago.
Trust no blog unless you know who pays who pays the bills.

And he says it very, very well.