So last week I had my journalism students do news pieces with new media. Most of them did blogs. I had this all planned out before our class and Im not using that in my reserach paper but it was interesting to see what they did. I wonder about the blogging thing though. How is blogging going to somehow replace the papers, which it seems to be doing. Im not just talking about personal blogging but those that are done by reporters. It seems they are blogging what they would report on in papers and people are able to comment on what they say and have conversations. I have seen some very good blogs where there are pics and videos, people comment and can hold a discussion. They seem, well and are, very interactive. That was a lot of what my book review was about that people seem to want to be able to interact with the media much more now than they did just a few years ago. They dont want to be passive observers as they did years ago. I think it has some good things and some bad, but I like the idea that younger people are that way. It really does show they are not appathetic like so many say they are. I mean there are some but that is generalizing when people assume they all are, I dont find that to be the case with all of them. One of the articles i read said that the youth of today are being bombarded with so much news that at some point they tend to shut it out. This is an issue becuase when i am overwhelmed I do the same thing, it is not just them. But with the blogging they can pick and choose what they want to look up and find out more about and that is a really good thing i feel.

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