Discuss “Media advances include using blogs for news”

In this tech-savvy world, diaries have become items of the past. When people want to vent their feelings, they no longer write in a bound journal and hide it under their pillow; people publish their thoughts for the world to see. This phenomenon, blogging, has revolutionized popular culture.

Blogging began as online diary entries, and the bloggers called themselves everything from diarists to escribitionists. Great corporations, too, used a similar format in their news sections. In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog,” which later evolved to “blog.” Though blogging seems to be innocent, it was not always this way. The first major controversy began with mistaken political comments in 1997; allegations of anti-Semitism arose surrounding...