HW 9 "Punching Holes in Old Faded Mirrors"

“Punching Holes in Old Faded Mirrors” was the title from am interview with Arianna Huffington. In this interview she discusses her participation in the blogosphere world and starting her own Blog; referring to it as a ‘blogazine’. Called the Huffington Post, she describes it as a “Combined breaking-news section with a group blog”. Huffington has made many explanations about blogs. She states how “Blogs have made a huge difference because they have broken the monopoly of the mainstream media. An enormous amount of people have become their own reporters”. Huffington is surely right about bloggers being their own reporters because, as she may not be aware, recent studies and from other readings in the book, “Blog!” have acknowledged the fact that bloggers are becoming more accurate with the issues they are discussing. I also agree how Arianna Huffington discusses that in the blogosphere world, the chance of a Blog being incorrect have a better chance in being corrected and improved.
Although there is not much information stated by Huffington that I disagree with, there was a line she said that I found a little controversial. She thought that the media was “Suffering from attention deficit disorder”. She thought that they only paid attention to one story at a time and don’t talk about any other issues. Although I agree with Huffington up to a point, I cannot accept the overall conclusion that the media constantly only deals with one problem on the news or in the newspapers at one time. Looking through any daily newspaper, there are plenty of breaking stories throughout it. They may have one huge breaking story more intense that some of the others, but the media never fails to not discuss them. Overall, I feel that Arianna Huffington portrayed well her thoughts upon blogs and I believe The Huffington Post will be a successful blog in the future.