HW 5b- Blogging versus the Media

A part of “I Blog, Therefore I am” that I disagreed with was that blogging will be more then a fad and will not die down unlike newspapers. Kline suggests that newspaper will become less and less popular although they will never completely go away and that blogging will increasingly get more popular. The author insists that “but for the next 25 years at least, one can safely bet that the mainstream media, reinvigorated by blogging and by a closer and more transparent relationship to readers and viewers, will not only survive but will maintain the upper hand over what is now thought of as the emerging blogging media, when measured in terms of power, influence and revenues” (Kline 243). As of right now I do not agree with this statement. To me blogging still seems like just a fad. It has not proven itself otherwise. To compare it to newspapers and TV is a bad idea. Blogging is now where near as powerful as something like The New York Times. Maybe, far into the future it will be but for right now I disagree. Many people in the world are still so unfamiliar with technology that it can not completely take over.