My name is David, I am a blogger, and I have found the Internet.

Blogging has offered an outlet to those in need of having their voice heard, their situation, or conflict that traditional news outlets have perhaps ignored, killed, or buried. Once stuck with the problem of having an article only to have an editor or newswire kill it, essentially knocking the story dead in its tracks, reporters, journalists and writers now have alternative methods of getting their story published – through the Internet.

With the Internet available at your home, and now thanks to Internet-connect laptop cards such as that in the above commercial, you have access to the Internet virtually anywhere you travel. Blogging has become commonplace, as has news surfing. The stories that were once buried by newspaper editors in fear of a liberal backlash have found a home – on the Internet.

Perhaps it was this conservatism on the behalf of newspaper “corporations” in burying controversial or insignificant (in terms of attention, revenue, etc) stories that has led to the demise of the newspaper conglomerates in part or in whole. Surely the rise of the Internet and the ability to read up to the date information on any topic, local or global, without having to wait for the morning paper, has brought an interconnectedness on a global scale. Video conferencing now takes place between humans half way across the world. The fiber and satellite communication links that have evolved in the last decade have changed the way this world operates and communicates, and will shape our future as well. It has also brought about the concept of the iReporter, a nickname given to viewers of CNN in America, where individuals become the reporter. Much like blogs, this outlet of information sharing has given anyone with an internet connection and a computer a voice.

And much to the dismay of conservative, ratings-minded news corporations – and I call them just that, corporations – blogs have surged in usefulness and popularity. It was roughly 10-15 years ago when a blogger by the name of Matt Drudge published an article that was leaked to him from someone within Newsweek after it had been buried. The resulting actions and consequences have gone down in history. The Drudge Report of a Presidential sex scandal led to an investigation and ultimately an impeachment…all from a blog posting of an article a news corporation buried. We are bloggers, and we have found the Internet.

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