Sunday, September 16, 2007
HW 3: Toward a More Participatory Democracy
David Kline states that the media today is extremely bias and often completely erroneous. Reporters and journalist are more concerned with creating eye-opening stories than remaining in the margins of the truth. This defys the purpose of news. This is where blogging can help rebuild trust in hearts across the world. Blogging creates a balance between media and fact. I was surprised by the huge influence blogging had on politics. One example was that during the August period leading up to the 2004 presidential election, the ten most popular political blogs collectively had 28 million visits from readers which rivaled traffic to the three 24/7 online cable networks. One of which, the liberal blog DailyKos, drew 7 million reader visits alone that month, which beat Fox News' 5.7 million online visits. It's incredible how much internet activity goes unmentioned.
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This meets most of the requirements of the assignment, summarizing part of the reading and giving your own thoughts on it.
When you summarize a source over several sentences, remember to keep referring back to the author or title so that the reader knows that you're still presenting the author's ideas and not your own. Blogs are becoming more respected by some readers than the mainstream media, as Burstein notes, because people...
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