Hw 9: applying ch 4 to interveiw

In the interview with Arianna Huffington, “Punching Holes in Old Faded Mirrors,” she explains her blog that she has launched that was propelled by celebrity power. Arianna Huffington is a social and political activist, and once a candidate for the governor of California. The point of Huffingtons bogs, is to “enrich and strengthen the blogs’ impact on the national conversation.” (Huffington 343) Huffingtons Blog is a combination of conversations of news and blogs. She calls this a “blogazine.”
There are many points that I agree with that Huffington has to say. Her Theory of blogs is extremely useful because it sheds insight of the difficult problems of the monopoly of the mainstream media. Where journalists head in sometimes a misleading direction, blogs are a larger group of people that have reports of their own giving blogs more opinions than just one particular reporter may have. I also agree with what Huffington has to say when she talks about the mainstream media “With the mainstream media there are so many constraints. And the biggest constrain in my opinion, is that the media is suffering from ADD. They can only focus on one story at a time……In contrast, in the blogoshere you can stay on a topic and return to it.” ( Huffington 345) I agree with that because my experience of watching and reading mainstream media confirms that. The blog that Huffington created is to show as many different views of the news that involve the opinions from celebrities, to people of all ages. She wants to show as many sides possible to have a blog that is true to the people as possible.