HW 19 Influencing US politics

The paragraph i concentrated on was on page 85 in Web of Infulence. It was how blogs are already influencing U.S politics. Consider Jimmy Or , the white house internet director, for characterized the "blogosphere" as instrumental, important and underestimated in its influence. For example the chapter talks about how Trent Lott, who resigned as U.S Senate majority leader because "inflammatory comments he made at Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party". The chapter talks about how there wasn't much attention about this on the news and mainstream media but the blogosphere was full of it. To take a case in point, i think blogosphere covers alot of different types of news then the mainstream. My conclusion then, is that the blogosphere is becoming really popular all over. It is influencing U.S politics in more ways then one. It also is influencing U.S politics more then the main media which is a pretty big deal. I what if people actually just go on blogs to find out the news instead of watching the television.