HW 3: Toward a more Participatory Democracy

As I was reading, in the first pages of David Klines chapter on politics and blogging, Kline quoted Frank Barnako of CBS.MarketWatch.com saying, "No one reads blogs". This was the first thing that caught my eye in this book. What? No one reads blogs? Blogs are becoming the most well read and listened to ideas and opinions in the technology world today. Political blogs have become a very important part of the news; Americans tend to read blogs rather than watching television and reading the newspapers about politics. Being able to trust the media became hard after they gave them many reasons not to, so people were dying to hear some honest opinions and blogs were a source that gave that honesty to them. Kline agrues that being able to trust the media became very hard after they gave them many reasons not to, and I agree because blog readers were dying to hear some honest opinions and blogs were a great source to give that honesty to them. I never would have even thought of blogs being that big of a reference that it could change the way that people react with elections, politics and much much more.


9-6-07-- I added work using a template from the book They say I say. (underlined)