On the radio program the Philosophers Zone it was argued by Professor Alvin Goldman that blogging threatens the conventional news media and that this threat could potentially impoverish society. I tend to agree with Tasmanian Professor David Cody that while conventional media provides the public with the raw news it’s the blogosphere that gives us a deconstructed analysis of the day’s events.
I can’t see blogs posing any serious threat to conventional media and the fact that people worry about it proves that western society undoubtedly has its priorities in order. Gone are the days of starving African children on infomercials begging for food now we can shed a tear over the underprivileged media, infomercials packed full of men in suits mercilessly forced to take a limozine instead of a private helicopter. If anything the blogosphere is helping the average consumer by creating competition for the media and preventing them from having a monopoly which would be the real tragedy for society. The sheer power the media would have over what people were able to see without the competition of the internet and the blogosphere is terrifying. Just knowing that uncensored and unbiased reports of current events do exist out there in vastness of the internet is a comfort to the average consumer not a threat. Who among us hasn’t noticed the supposedly impartial news is a wee bit biased. Were being fed the stories we want to hear, rather than the stories that are true. Were being encouraged to feel strongly about the situation by being not so subtly encouraged to pick a side based on emotion, regardless of the facts.
So readers have no fear the blogs are here to help, we won’t bite, about the only thing the blogosphere could hurt is the medias precious ratings.
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