Many people have commented lately that TV, particularly news, is slowly becoming irrelevant. Could it be that (many younger but some older) people are slowy starting to find out that reality is much more interesting? (That might explain the proliferation of lousy reality-like TV programs.)

Why listen to a 15 second news report when you can read (or hear, or watch) accounts of the event from people who were actually there? That's a wholly different situation from the one where you have reporters planted in fixed positions being fed a doctored version of the news. Obviously there are times when it is completely appropriate to "doctor" up news a bit (omitting names, not revealing private details, etc). But those are issues where society and peer pressure already apply to some extent. And I think society will work out the other details over time. Sure you will get some personal bias and whatnot. But newspapers and others media outlets are becoming increasingly biased for whatever reasons. And if it was a big event you can just ask someone else what they thought. If it was a small event then you'd probably never had heard about it otherwise.

So, what am I rambling about? Well, I guess blogging... This thing I'm doing right now. It is becoming easier every day to add audio, sound, and soon I bet we'll have video. Many blogs put other so-called news sources to shame. Many blogs are focused on a very narrow subject but most seem to talk about whatever is on the mind of the author at the moment.

And the beauty of the whole blogging concept is that you can use a feed reader client to pull blog entries from all over the web into your own personal newspaper.

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