Q9: Alvin Goldman and Richard Posner disagree about the value of the blogosphere. Who do you think is right and why? Solution Political Blogosphere:- It draws on the current state of the political blogosphere. by Alvin Goldman, “The Social Epistemology of Blogging.†Goldman claims that there are good reasons to be concerned by the rise of the political blog. In particular, he claims that political blogs are replacing mainstream media as sources of political information for significant numbers of the voting public while not replicating epistemically valuable features of the mainstream media.These features include information filtering and the effective discovery anddissemination of political truths. Alvin Goldman said I do not think that the government does bear much responsibility for the crisis. I fear that the responsibility falls almost entirely on the private sector. Firstly, in terms of the widespread nature of the mainstream media, recent years have presented a dramatic decline in the consumption of traditional media formats such as newspapers.The argument for ‘filtration’ in terms of democracy aims towards the promotion of knowledge and the avoidance of errors.econdly, the multiple sources claim is again an idealistic notion. This is reinforced by Coady claiming that often multiple sources are not utilised when necessary. Coady and Goldman has identified blogging’s clear advantages over the mainstream media in terms of its widespread nature, accessibility, filtration system and growing credibility. so i thing both of them are correct .