While researching the net for my in-class activity I noticed one hard-to-miss factor on blogs concerning The View. The blogs are either very liberal or very conservative, and in most cases, very rude and tacky, often targeting the hosts of the TV shows on personal matters such as weight, religion, and often race.

I started doing research on “the blogosphere” and the “old media”. (Note, I am typing this in word first and the word “blogosphere” was not underlined when I spellchecked, so that term must have been around awhile as my computer system is at least 7 years old.) Blogosphere refers to the bloggin community on the net and the old media to television, magazines, etc. In an old MSNBC segment, news commentator Bill Press condemned bloggers as people “with no credentials, no sources, no rules, no editors and no accountability.”

Was he right? Is there any responsibility to blogging? Do we have a Miss Manners or an Emily Post for the web world?

I enjoy watching the view because it expands my horizons’. I have to admit that I DVR it and will often fast foreword the program because it too can because an ugly and heated. The most famous example was the debate between Rosie O’Donnell and Elizabeth which resulted in Rosie asking to be released from her show earlier then expected.






I guess what I am asking is, what is the responsibility of the blogosphere? Check out an article reprinted on the Huffington Post by Willow Bay intitled Bile in the Blogoshere. In it she states that “the danger we face-and even more so, the young people who grew up on the Web-may start to mistake hatefulness for wit and intelligence.”


Works sited:Bay, Willow. "Bile in the Blogoshere" Town & Country, April 2008