HW 2: Politics and Blogging

"Our Government is being robbed"(Kline 3) is just the opening to a very exiting debate between two bloggers, Chris M. Fick and Jerry Hurtubise. In discussion of our government between the two, Fick suggests that we are being robbed and we don’t even know about it. He says that the media is owned by the right wing. On the other hand Hurtubise, A right winged, says that the right winged party’s movement is bigger than anything that the left party has ever done. I found a very interesting is that being extremely shortsighted to get rid of the huge influence that bloggers are just starting to have upon the American political scene. In the 2004 presidential elections, 28 million readers went to all different political blogging cites. Liberal blog DailyKos drew 7 million alone. Six months after it still drew 11 million visits a month. After reading on, I found this blogger to be very interesting. “One blogger’s suggestion resulted in 115,632 handwritten letters being sent from the candidate’s supporters to eligible voters in the upcoming Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire.” (Kline 16). At the end, looking back on the debates and thinking about how politics and blogging work together, I read about how Frank Barnako, from CBS, and he says “no one reads blogs” (Kline 4). He then states “At least [Wall Street] traders read blogs, then, and act on what they read…Political blogging is like Ralph Nader, Nobody pays attention.” After reading about blogging and politics, I wonder what blogging will incorporate next.