I am a big fan of web blogs. They are a source for "uncensored, unmediated, (and) uncontrolled (information)." I can get a no holds barred approach to news. Sure you get some biased articles and rants but that is part of what to expect from an amateur writer. The trick is to weed out the bullshit from the substance.
Web blogs are often targeted towards a specific demographic; tech blogs towards young adults and teens, gossip sites towards younger girls, and video game blogs towards gamers specifically.
Many times they tell the reader exactly what they want to hear.
Rumors are all over blogs and that is partially what drives the. Big media won't print stories based entirely on rumor and that is where blogs gain a lot of appeal. It gives readers something to talk about and to speculate over.
Bloggers should be help accountable for bad information. Rarely do you see a posted correction regarding bad information online. Mostly it seems, that many of bloggers depend on their readers and response forums to sort out truth false information.
Many times at Best Buy people come in after reading online that a CD has been released only to find that we don't have it yet. Online sources for such information are incredibly unreliable. Buy people are often angry when we tell them that we don't have the product in question. They view their online source as literal fact and believe that we are wrong. This shows the level that some people trust online sources and blogs for information.
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