HW 3 "Toward a More Participatory Democracy"

In reading Chapter 1 of “Toward a More Partipatory Democracy” David Kline recognized the idea that Blogging is conflicting differences between opposite views. Elections have become the greatest example of how blogging has had an impact in our daily lives. Blogging has influenced the different political views of many Americans opinions; especially how our country is being run today. For example, according to the media, they broadcasted that “Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; then suddenly, their wasn’t.” This goes to show that what they broadcast on the news and in our newspapers isn’t always politically correct. Bloggers almost always catch these problems in the news and there ideas are more accurate. Problem is we’re so used to the idea of the news always being right that no one takes into consideration anything about the accuracy of bloggers.
Another problem occurring with the media today is they don’t have coverage on religion and it is becoming “remarkably absent from most mainstream American media”. People have begun to find this a problem because some of the worst issues in our country today have resulted in the disagreements between religions. Bloggers have been able to fill the lacking of religion from newspapers and television by writing precise blogs discussing what the media is refraining from.
It has become common today that “the media can merely benefit from some new (blogger) blood”. Americans today tend to believe that having some of the bloggers intelligent backgrounds on large issues in our country today can only benefit us and make our media become more accurate.
In my opinion, I feel that blogging is more correct than a good amount of stories that the media tells us in the newspapers and on the daily news today. I no for a fact that newspapers can completely butcher stories and turn them around to something that didn’t even happen. For instance, I went to High school with a student who committed a crime and it was put in the newspaper. He was in one of my classes and discussed that they made the story sound worse than what really happened and was extremely upset with how the media told the story. This makes me more familiar with how David Kline discusses the inaccuracy of the media today and how we need more bloggers to be part of the media.