HW 9: Huffington's interview

“Punching Holes In Old Faded Mirrors” is an interesting interview with Arianna Huffington. She is a social and political activist, who is trying to strengthen the impact that blogs are having on national conversation. “She is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective.” (Kline 343) Throughout her interview Huffington makes a lot of interesting points that I had never taken into consideration. She goes into detail that blogs allow everybody to be their own reporter and what is so great about that is because these people are driven by passion rather than deadlines. Also she confirmed something that I had questioned, she states, “The great thing about the blogosphere is that it can be self-correcting. If there’s a fact that a blogger puts out that’s wrong, the chances of it being corrected quickly are very great.” I thought it was extremely important that Huffington made this clear because I think a lot of people are probably skeptical about the information that they are receiving through blogs. One thing that I disagree with is when Huffington claims that blogs have made a huge difference in the mainstream media. I THINK HUFFINGTON IS MISTAKEN BECAUSE SHE OVERLOOKS the fact that so many people are still unaware about blogging in general. Yes, it has made an impact but I don’t think that the mainstream media would be in any trouble without blogging.