HW 3: Correspondence to "Toward a More Participatory Democracy"

Throughout the reading of "Toward a More Participatory Democracy" by Burstein and Kline, I thought that they went on and on about the elections and how the blogs have effected the outcome. Maybe the chapter was too long? I knew I was losing interest after page 10. The whole chapter made every person who reads the blogs sound vulnerable. It’s like anything people write, such as opinions, other people take it as facts. It also made our society sound pathetic. People are researching everything, and going beyond the News and the Media. Why would people want to see photos of the caskets of soldiers who had died in the Iraqi War? Maybe their families didn’t want the pictures to get out into the media. Also, people read about the elections online and it changed their thought of mind. It had such an impact on the American Political scene as well. Around the 2004 elections blogging was huge. Many people visited the blog sites to get “the scoop.” The whole ordeal to me is just retarded. People should have their own opinions, instead of having others think for them.