Left or Right: Who Dominates the Blogosphere? June 8, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Uncommon_Knowledge_Andrew_Breitbart

Former Drudge Report editor Andrew Breitbart analyzes the apparent dominance of liberal blogs over their conservative counterpoints, arguing that the Left dominates because they protect mainstream media. He compares liberals' online strength to the popularity of conservative talk radio.

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Identified as "one of the ten most important people in the media that nobody's ever met," Andrew Breitbart details why leftward-leaning Hollywood is dangerous for America and why the people who run it are "uninteresting," "vitriolic," and "vicious."

Segueing from Hollywood to the Internet, Breitbart explores why the right dominates talk radio and the left seems to do better on the Internet and how the decline of print media is changing the nature of the national political conversation. - Hoover Institution

Andrew Breitbart grew up in Los Angeles and went to Tulane University. He helped edit the Drudge Report and was a developer of the Huffington Post. He is the author of Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity. He manages two websites: Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.