"Toward a more particapory democracy"
This chapter talks about the legitimacy of blogging in correlation with other sources of mainstream mass media. A large portion of the article is spent defacing other forms of media. It says that television news stations are generally biased. I'm sure fox news would be very surprised to hear this. I personally agree, world news is the only semi-reliable source on t.v. Also, it takes down newspapers. Apparently, those republicans and democrats just can't agree. Again, i'm sure the Union Leader would be shocked to hear this. As far as substanstiating the bloggers claim to having an unbiased medium, there is discussion to be had. One could say that blogging is no different than other forms of media, since there is still a difference of opinion among the authors of blogs. However, it is certainly better than mainstream news in the sense that they are not searching for profit, so the news chosen is unfiltered and does not exlude material. I believe that its ultimaly just another form of media, and will slip in nicely with the rest.
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Steve, this summarizes some of the chapter and offers your own response to the reading, as the assignment requests.
I find parts of it a little hard to follow, though. Try reading what you've written out loud to yourself before you post it; your ear will catch some of the awkward or unclear constructions. Remember to mention and credit the author, also. For example instead of saying :
"Toward a more particapory democracy"
This chapter talks about the legitimacy of blogging in correlation with other sources of mainstream mass media.
Why not say something like:
In the chapter "Toward a More Participatory Democracy" David Kline claims that blogging is gaining status as a legitimate news source, competing with more traditional or mainstream news media.
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