An essay called “Toward a More Participatory Democracy”, written by David Kline, is about how political blogs are important in the world today. It explains that throughout the mid 2000’s the American population have slowly become less and less attracted towards media news like newspapers and news broadcasts and more attracted to political blogs. The reason being all of the commotion that has happened since the War in Iraq has begun. Things like when the news said that the government had intelligence saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction then said they didn’t find weapons of mass destruction. At the same time I believe that political blogs are as informative if not more as media, I also believe that not all blogs can be trusted either. In his essay he never really explains or goes on the other side of how some blogs can be biased as well as untrue. Just because the media has bad wraps for giving false information doesn’t mean blogs don’t as well. Anyone can write a blog, so someone who’s completely insane and paranoid could say something along the lines of the government is spying on its people. News reports never could go that far without losing a lot of ratings, so somehow they need to make sure they can at least give some sort of truth. Blogs can be completely false if the person who wrote it wants it to be.
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Well done.
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