The Hanging Shad has clarified his original post regarding a 38% increase in judicial branch employees over the past 10 years.
Colin McEnroe has written about the “reverse funnel effect” in the blogosphere. For the most part the blogosphere is a giant echo chamber comprised of persons with broadband access commenting on the work of others. Sometimes, the blogosphere breaks a story that gets picked up on by traditional media.
Last week, the Shad’s story on the increase in legislative employees got picked up by several traditional news outlets and resulted in editorials.
When I saw his original post about the Judicial Branch numbers – I nearly fell out of my chair. They didn’t seem right to me at all.
So I did what bloggers normally do – I wrote a post commenting on the work of another blogger. Echo chamber indeed.
Normally, I don’t care about such things. I’m not some sort of cop on the blogosphere beat.
But these numbers were different.