Employers checking out MySpace blogs

The recent controversies surrounding MySpace blogs set up by an intern for Governor Matt Blunt and lobbyist Jewell Patek, and a Missouri Democratic Party worker involved in State Auditor Claire McCaskill's senatorial campaign have shed a light on a growing phenomenon.
For some reason, youthful bloggers have a tendency to put everything about themselves onto their blogs, including things that can be damaging to their employment prospects. Many employers, though apparently not those in political circles, have begun researching the personal blogs of their prospective employees, according to a New York Times article.
While sifting through the MySpace blogs that have come to the attention of our warring political blogs in Missouri, I am stunned by the language they use, how easily they sprinkle profanity onto their pages. Other pages of this nature serving as odes to drinking and the use of illegal drugs are being discovered by potential employers and are eliminating the possibility of these young people being hired.