HW 9: Huffington Interview

In "Punching Holes in Faded Mirrors," Arianna Huffington explains how if campaigning, advertising, and opining havent changed things the way she wanted, then how blogs can make such a difference. I agree with the statement that blogs have made a huge difference because they have broken the monopoly of the mainstream media. People tend to write blogs because they have something to share with the rest of the world, and in this case blogging has one of the largest influences on advertising and campaigning. For example Arianna states how the mainstream media inored the demise of senate majority leader Trent Lott, while bloggers kept going until Trent Lott had become the former Senate majority leader. I agree that Arianna is right in her statement, this is definately a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe otherwise. In contrast I also disagree with the idea that blogging is helping campaigns and advertising. I dont think that people should be going by what they hear in blogs, but rather what they hear from the political campaigns themselves. People may often be misled by the facts andgossip on the internet as well as blogs. The idea that less and less people are getting their information from the television, may also decrease advertising in a negative way. There are definately many positive and negative aspects to Huffington's ideas but fot the most part blogging has become an influential aspect to many people around the world.