HW 5b: A Whole New World

Have you ever just looked at your life and pictured what it would be like without media? Today I did just that. Everyday someone is looking or reading or listening to some kind of media. Whether it would be a newspaper, book, magazine, internet or radio. These sources are what makes our life flow. These sources are what keep our mornings, afternoons and nights on track. How would we know about the war or weather reports without some kind of media. It is almost like the battle of the media now these days. Every type of media is competing. I admire the fact that Kline explains the different types of media in “I Blog, Therefore I Am”. Most of the media back in the 1950’s were basically newspapers. Everyone read and listened to the same information. Now, there are different types of information and different types of opinion based articles. I believe that Kline was right in saying that blogging has come along way, but still isn’t nearly as big as other media. He demonstrates that “CNN’s Website draws more than 22 million users a month more than bloggers can only dream of matching.” He explained that “more than 352 million magazines were sold in the US from last year.” Which is really good. But, I argue that as much as magazines are selling now, it cost money to buy them. When you could just go online and find all those articles on a website. I disagree with Kline’s paragraph that suggests that “bloggers are more transparent than the mainstream media about the process use in writing their articles, providing readers with links to documents and other information sources.” (pg 240 paragraph 4). I disagree with that because you really don’t see where the sources are coming from. Even with the news. You don’t know if its real. With blogs, you hear it from the real people manufacturing real item, or real people talking about the issues. Its more personal. But cant trust that they are telling us the truth.