Our past reading, “Electronic Community: From Birth to Backlash” outlined the creation of the Internet as a web community. I found it very interesting to learn about USENET and IRC chat as an early means of communication during the rise of the Internet. One argument I found particularly interesting, and I bet many people would question the validity of this statement, is “…the Internet is doing just fine…In the short time Blogger has been available, it has fostered an interconnected community of tens of thousands of users. These people don’t simply surf the Web. They are now empowered to create it” (p. 31). He is implying here that the internet in a good state because people aren't just watching content or reading up on things. Rather, they are creating content for people to watch and writing things for people to read.
Most people my age agree that the Internet and blogging are a great way of exercising the use of free speech. Blogs also serve as literature to read as a digital medium. For example, although I do not post very often, I like to read blogs about television, movies and technology. However, according to the video above, FOX News loathes blogging and sees it as an injustice to many industries due to its obscene language. The video shows a montage of clips taken from several FOX news reports where they criticize the act of blogging. The video was created by “Fox attacks”, a blog (interestingly enough) that dedicates itself to hating FOX news. The video relates to Rushkoff's argument in that it down right disagrees with it. The several news anchors and correspondents on FOX news say that people that blog are too critical, mean and bullying. The video also calls bloggers unreliable. I disagree with them (I agree with Rushkoff). Even though some reports are false, blogging is great because it allows anyone to break a reliable news story 24/7 rather than having to wait for a journalist to find the story, write it up, edit it and broadcast it. That is the advantage bloggers have over journalists.
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