Why Blogs? (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

With an innumerable amount of flashy, take-forever-to-load mainstream websites teeming with must-read items about pseudo-people like Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore... why do so many bother maintaining a blog that's read by (maybe) 75 outcasts?

In some ways, blogs -- an epigrammatic name that encompasses an ever-widening aggregation of personal websites dedicated to a fabulously broad range of subject matter -- have replaced the dog-eared notebook into which we scribbled our deepest thoughts... shunning attention, fearing perhaps, we were alone. Now, with a blog-inspired sense of community, many of us are baring our souls and finding that others share the same concerns -- something we could never discover from traditional media outlets.

Our mainstream media is like watching Saturday morning cartoons -- only with real blood; it is a wonderful distraction machine. Sports, politics, crime, entertainment, sex, culture, public relations, advertising, education, religion; everything becomes a show, a marketable commodity aiming for the lowest common denominator. Life itself is the grandest spectacle of all.

Buried under an avalanche of the latest consumer trends and other self-destructive illusions, the result is inevitably a creeping alienation and isolation. We all want something out of life, but the opinion-makers and spin doctors have effectively cut off any constructive avenues. Hence, we find other ways to belong; ways that are outside the public arena. The function of the mainstream media is to make sure we stay there.

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[niyad]

1. oh my, could the blogs possibly be getting under their skins???? if,

in fact, only 75 people read the average blog, what in the HELL are they so worried about?