HW 5b: "I Blog, Therefor I Am"

"I Blog, Therefore I Am" written by David Kline, discusses that because blogging has become such a large phenomenon that it may possibly take over the mainstream media. I do not deny that blogging is getting more popular everyday but I disavow that it will ever be so popular that it will take over mainstream media. Kline observes that since the 1990's the amount of people reading the newspaper has declined rapidly, but people are still getting their news and important information from media. Blogging is not something that people do as a job or as something that they must do in their everyday life, but it is something that people do for fun. The mainstream media does involve people whose job is part of the media and it is something that they must do everyday to make a living so I think that it would be impossibly for blogging to completely take over the media. Since not as many people are reading books and writing as much as they have in the past, Kline believes that people will start to use "Netspeak" instead of using proper spelling and grammar, however; language classes will still be taught to people of all ages so I do not think that people will just stop using correct english when reading and writing. Anything can be put on the internet, so there is a possibility that anything a person reads on the internet could be false. Kline insists that all companies may come to a downfall if they do not have a blog because of how much attention blogging has been getting. Blogs are a good way for people to talk about their opinions and beliefs that have over something they heard on the news or on the radio, if blogs are going to become a way of getting our news and information we cannot be sure that it will all be truthful.