https://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/03/18/word-to-the-blogosphere-on-not-preaching-to-the-choir/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 13:05:33 -0400<![CDATA[Preaching to the choir: that&#8217;s what so many bloggers in the increasingly stultified, conformist, Crips-and-Bloods gang war atmosphere of liberal and conservative blogs do. As someone who reads both liberal and conservative blogs, I find the comments a sad echo chamber that often does little more than mouth the pieties of each position with little more than smug bile to add, thus reaffirming the blogger&#8217;s own self-satisfied, inside-the-box predictability for fear of the lynch mob mentality with which any dissent from the accepted position is punished.]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:24:44 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Rosenbaum]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-rosenbaum/2009/03/18/word-to-the-blogosphere-on-not-preaching-to-the-choir-n115841