hw 5b "i disagree"

A very large portion and underlining theme of the book "blog", seems to heavily endorse the idea that other forms of mainstream media, besides blogs are failing. This point is reiterated for the 500th time in the comic strip in the beggining of the chapter "I blog therefore I am." While I don't deny the fact that blogs are a stylish new form of media, they will never, become more popular than newspaper or television news. The comic strip makes the joke that newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur, which may be true in the form of substance. However, it is not true in the form of ratings. Beyond newspaper ratings by far is news station ratings. They are the fastest form of media, internet news is second. People will always go to their televisions to get the latest news, this will never change. So, I will most certainly disagree on these points with Kline. If he ever recieves his idealistic utopian world of the perfect form of communication media, I will be extremely happy for him. Perhaps, i will even congradulate him on his blog,( it would be highly hipocritic if he did have one). I reccomend using several sources of media before formulating educated opinions, which means using blogs along with other sources of media. Blogs are simply another form of media. Get off your blogging pedestal Kline.