Saturday, September 08, 2007
Down with blogs? Yes...Wait No!
I don’t blog at all, well unless it is required for a class at school, which in this case it is. And to tell you the truth, it isn’t bad at all. It is very interesting to get a feel for other people’s views about things that you may not normally chat about, or to just read a blog about something you are interested in. I read the article entitled Down With Blogs… by Ed Heresniak and it got me thinking about blogs and the point of them. And well, I still don’t know the point of them but there is one out there somewhere. Blogs are the new “letters to the editor” in your local newspaper except with a much larger audience and much greater power to reach random people. Think about it, you can be cursing around online looking at or for something and then you see a link… so you click that link and it takes you to point b and then c and so on and so on and eventually sometimes you end up on a page with some text in somewhat of a paragraph with bad spelling and grammar. Bam! It’s a blog… about something right? Well maybe or maybe not. There are millions of blogs out there from how to care for your pet rock to peoples opinions about the current presidency. And that’s all very nice but people don’t care. They may care for the 10 minutes they read it, but that’s all it is, a time consumer. Most blogs are garbage or peoples opinions about things you may never have heard of. But there is always that great search bar where you can find something \you are interested in and read and read and lose brain cells by the second. The truth is this, you may have read what I just typed and thought deeply about whatever I tried to make sense of a few lines up, but most likely your just about to click to a different page. And that’s fine, that’s what makes blogs so great I guess, is that you can get rid of them if you don’t like the content. I hope it doesn’t sound like I am bashing blogs because I don’t think I am, im just trying to make it clear that a lot of the blogs out there don’t matter, but there are some that do.
Blogs are important in this day and age because with news corporations like Fox News Corp and other big time cable news channels basically running the world, the people need an outlet, and they need more then ten lines in the back of a newspaper or magazine. Blogs can be used to fight back against news that is fed to us, and blogs fight with the truth…well sometimes, and facts…sometimes. In the article, Ed Heresniak said…
“I think the rise of blogs and other forms of Web-based meandering through primary or allegedly primary sources for news and information is directly related to the much-reported collapse of reliable, trusted news sources and their conversion to marketing shills, promoting either themselves or others for a fee.”And I do agree with him. Blogs arose because technology is better then ever and more accessible then ever. You can blog from your cell phone if you want! Blogs don’t replace the news or newspapers but did any educated person really pay attention to Fox News talking about god knows what? Times have changed but news hasn’t, we the people now report the news because we can’t trust the big news corporations, but can you really trust every person to bring you the truth? The answer is no, but with the rise in blogs and links to everything in those blogs it will at least get people thinking. Blogs kick-start the brain.
Labels: Blog, Fox News, Heresniak
This is a thoughful reaction to blogs and blogging. Amateur blogs will never replace professional reporting, but they do offer a counterpoint to the mainstream media.
What will happen when the blogosphere is dominated by the major media corporations?
Blogging is becoming a professional passtime for many in corporate America but it will not replace the news and information collected by the mainstream media.
You may not find the major news corporations like FOX particularly trustworthy but how can you check the reliablity of the blogosphere?
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