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Ali Center website
Interesting story about Ali and his lost medal (thanks again to Office for sending me a similar link earlier this week)
How blogging is changing "the news" (from three years ago)
An example of how blogs open up the reality of world events without hairspray, heavy makeup, or ads to sell.
Other blogs in the news
We don't have to take our news like some sort of multi-vitamin
anymore. We don't need to swallow it all, starting with the "if
it bleeds, it leads" rule of journalism. We don't have to endure
commercials (for the most part), we don't have to watch w/ increasing
numbness as a news anchor seamlessly changes gears from the
teleprompter's notes on a grisly fatal car accident to the "feel good"
story before the commercial break. We don't have to take into
consideration the newspapers' stockholders and their connection to each
other's pocketbooks. None of that HAS to apply anymore.
The internet has made it possible for bloggers to speak out as independently as they want to, even anonymously if need be. The news is getting a rapid facelift, and I like it.
Of course, there are corporate blogs, there are liars and sneaks and
cheats and greed-driven writers spinning crap all over the cosmos, same
online as off. If you don't forget that and you use a little
critical thinking, the internet's increasing number of blogs are a
great source of information.
Just a few steps between a newspaper story and a conversation at a bar
one-on-one, blogs are rife with personality, spelling and grammatical
errors, rumors, and stunning revelations from insightful individuals
that you may or may not like, but with whom you choose to commune
informationally.
Oh, yeah, baby.
The world is changing.
I'm sorry bad things happen to good people, and I know that phenomenon well, being a good people myself, and having bad things happen more than I'd like.
As for me, though...I'm going to report on this very blog my experience at the Ali Center this weekend. My photographer wasn't given press credentials, but this writer was.
Because I am a blogger. Like you.
And I care about the Ali Center.
And I begged.
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| | Posted 11/15/2005 7:44 PM - 1 view - 3 comments
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