Is this really necessary?
It is becoming easier and easier to achieve your 15 minutes of fame these days, or at least to get the sensation of those 15 minutes without actually making any real impact.
Enter the iReporters. CNN.com began a project at some point in the last year that allows every day people to report the news as they see it. This has led to some "awesome" "stories", like the video of the online astrologer in a tanktop during the California earthquake a couple months ago.
And apparently now it's no longer good enough to get a poll to find out how the public is reacting to politics; the poll is augmented by and sometimes foregone for the personal views of anyone who thinks their opinion is worthy of the internet. This results in a bunch of extremist crazies submitting back-and-forth attacks and going nowhere.
Is all this self-expression really necessary? Really?
Then again, I'm writing my opinion in the same medium...
Enter the iReporters. CNN.com began a project at some point in the last year that allows every day people to report the news as they see it. This has led to some "awesome" "stories", like the video of the online astrologer in a tanktop during the California earthquake a couple months ago.
And apparently now it's no longer good enough to get a poll to find out how the public is reacting to politics; the poll is augmented by and sometimes foregone for the personal views of anyone who thinks their opinion is worthy of the internet. This results in a bunch of extremist crazies submitting back-and-forth attacks and going nowhere.
Is all this self-expression really necessary? Really?
Then again, I'm writing my opinion in the same medium...
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