Blog Overkill--Not Quite What its Craked Up to be

Jack Shafer, "The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground" October 12, 2009 http://www.slate.com/id/2112621/

Blogging is a very effective form to get news out, but will never replace the news. Although in the past there have been a few outlandish claim that new technology and such would out-do the media in news and in entertainment, but sadly it isn't and never will be so. As we obtain these modes to get news and whats juicy to the people, the media gains these modes of communication and entertainment as well. The media evolves so that we will never be able to overcome it by our own means. It is similar to when the video camra was invented, we would eventually become better than the movie makers all becoming directors and film makers. This never worked, although the videos that we can make now days are much better than some of the movies in the past we cannot trump the media of the present. It is the same with blogging. Blogging is a creative means in which anyone can say anything they want, and they can expose any sort of news much faster then the news coorperations that do, the next day. Im afraid, however that we will never become better than these newscastors and journalists and so our mode of information still loses.

I believe that this is very true. There is a lot of hype about how then new and next big thing will be what outdoes the media in reporting, or in film making, or in journalism. We will somehow better these professional business by all working together, but that is the problem. We are not all working together in the blogging world. We all may help to inform others through one means or another and can only hope to someday be as good as the pros. The biggest reason this is, is that we the people may believe that we can get along better on our own, but we do not get paid to do what we would do. If news was left up to blogging we would never know what goes on because there would be no drive to do the work. Journal enteries online and news column frauds would be biased and misinformed often. The biggest barrier to us becoming better then the pros is money. It is simply not our profession, so we can critique, but we will never be as good as them because we don't recieve the compensation that they do for writing their articles. We overhype the blogging world because we think that we can do better, but in reality we will never defeat the strong media powers.