(...)   "The blogs can report, too, as we're seeing -- just ask Dan Rather

(...)  The "over PC-ing" of the media brings up a key aspect of today's culture wars. "One key reason the Right is, if not winning", Anderson says, "at least no longer losing the culture wars isn't the new media; it's the intellectual exhaustion of the Left, something that has become especially apparent in a post-9/11 era".

(...) Last year, James Pierson of the WeeklyStandard.com coined a term called "punitive liberalism" to describe the post-1972 Left's belief that America was always on the wrong side of the key events in history, and therefore deserved to be punished

(...) "punitive liberalism" to describe the post-1972 Left's belief that America was always on the wrong side of the key events in history, and therefore deserved to be punished. It was a worldview very different from the older, pro-American FDR/JFK-style of liberalism of the previous generation.

(...) Meanwhile, television was transformed by the two competing PCs -- political correctness and personal computers. Excessive political correctness alienated many viewers; and the personal computer and a wide-open Internet provided a timely alternative.

(...) the end result of the Blogosphere's influence is that "News becomes a conversation. It's not finished and fish wrap when it's printed. That's when the public finally gets to ask questions, contribute facts, and add new perspective."

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And where does Anderson see the next Front in the Culture Wars? "Academia of course, which is where Anderson chooses to end "South Park Conservatives"

And as you might expect, changing academia won't be easy, and Anderson agrees.