HW 9: Punching Holes in Old Faded Mirrors

After reading "Punching Holes in Old Faded Mirrors", and interview with Arianna Huffington I feel that I can relate to her the most with the statements that she makes. Huffington says, "But with blogs an enormous amount of people have become their own reporters. They are driven not by the assignment desk but by passion. When they decide that something matters they chomp down hard and refuse to let go." (Kline and Burstein, 344). I agree that in blogging when people write they write about things that they care about, unlike reporters who are often told what to write about even if it is not something they care about because my experience as a college student is that when you are forced to write something that is not important to you, you do not try as hard to write a good essay or do well on a test. Huffington says that blogs are now a vital news source in our country, maybe even more then the news on television. " We thought this vitality would come from a five-hundred-channel universe, but what we ended up with was the same conventional wisdom endlessly repeated." (Kline and Burstein, 345). I disagree with Huffingtons view that the news is not as vital because the same covers stories are often just repeated on every channel because, as recent research has shown althoghut newspapers and television are not as popular as they used to be back in the day thousands of people still get their news from these sources. Huffington makes many points that are easy to disagree or agree with depending on a person perception and how they want to interpret what she says in her interview.