The Argument for Blogs

I’m sure that if you watch cable TV enough you learn to put the news on screen in “background mode” because beside making stories bigger than they are, they have to fill 24 hours a day of it.  But even so, it’s funny to see the networks doing everything possible to say that they are honest, transparent, fair, balanced etc.  Now Fox is identified as having received information from the White House scripting for them what they should say and do.  

You as any other viewer of cable news should exercise caution when viewing because these cable news outlets are not at all what they are sold to you as.  Do you remember when news were about telling you and not about blatantly opinioning you?  I see them do this over and over again on every single segment they broadcast.  “Here is the news pitch, and here is X commentator from Y and A commentator from B to tell us more…” And before long you find yourself watching hours of opinions being bludgeoned into your head as if they were facts.  I remember that around 9/11, I watched the news almost religiously but ever since then I have become less and less content with their delivery and annoyed at their assumptions about where we are and what we feel about things in the country.

Which is why I support and continue to prefer the blog as the ultimate source of communication with the real people in the country and throughout the world for that matter.  Even though some blogs are used for professional propaganda like any other communication median, its easy to separate those that do with those that don’t if you just read into the comments area far enough.  The fact that media is cheaper to produce is a blessing for all of us, the individuals, and a handicap for the complex-media outlets.  

Support your blogs by subscribing to their feeds regularly and placing your opinion on the comments area to continue the communication and to strengthen these tools for us.  This blog in particular is about living, entertainment, technology and work at home opportunities and it is running on a bilingual English Spanish platform, but you can find many more blogs to read and get information from by visiting places like Technorati or Digg.  You can even take it a step further by signing up with services like Google Reader and hand picking which blogs, subjects and categories you like and have those feeds sent directly to you either by email or to your browser for direct viewing.

You don’t have to sit and watch puppet cable news that doesn’t let you interact and provide your individual opinion or manipulate their perspective and opinion on their “predetermined” subjects.  

Say “no” to their delivery system by hitting the OFF button.

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