August 18, 2006
Overlooked Blog Review – Urbanagora
The point-counterpoint style columns and blogs are ubiquitous and run very close to being cliché. However, Urbanagora overcomes that problem with two solid writers who do the Hannity and Colmes format the right way.
Brian Pierce and Billy Joe Mills are both columnists for the Daily Illini and two of the more influential political writers in central Illinois. They both are solid thinkers who communicate their points well. In fact, it is hard to read anything they write without coming away thinking you can't really disagree with it.
There commitment to serious discussion with opposing points of view is a refreshing change from the WWE-style form of political discussion that is all-to-common in the blogosphere and cable news channels. In fact, both writing from a college town, they overcome the typical mudslinging that pervades the conversations among the supposed "intellectual elite". Those mediums spend their time presenting personalities and suck up all the oxygen in the room leaving nothing left for ideas. Billy and Brian bring ideas.
By stimulating serious conversation between opposing points of view, they are doing the University community, and the blogosphere a great service. This is the way political discussion should be done.
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