Comments on: Demogogic Blogging https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=238 Wed, 04 May 2005 21:40:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: Liam https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=238&cpage=1#comment-537 Wed, 04 May 2005 21:40:30 +0000 /?p=238#comment-537 No doubt the public should know, but the public should also know about the policies of the people they’re voting for.

Saying people should eat their vegetables won’t necessarily make them do so, even if they should. We need the political equivalent of vegetables in potato chip form, probably with the words LOW FAT all over them.

]]> By: sieber https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=238&cpage=1#comment-534 Tue, 03 May 2005 19:48:26 +0000 /?p=238#comment-534 I am just amazed by this. I wonder how scientists or those on the left could possibly compete with this. One could ask, why should we? On the other hand, shouldn’t the public know as much about the impacts of our consumptive lives as we do about the inner lives of celebrities. (More cynically, maybe they’re one and the same.)

Take a look at the Salon article, Attack of the celebrity blogs for a sense of their popularity.

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