Technology has given anyone the capacity to publish to a massive audience, but this doesn\’t automatically make everyone a reporter.

The blogosphere has done a great job of reporting on the web 2.0 phenomenon, even better than the traditional media in fact. The blogosphere has been able to give web 2.0 the attention it\’s deserved as a niche, which is really the power of the internet as a publishing medium.

But can you imagine how much time would be wasted if newspapers did a techcrunch and reported every little fact about the thousands of web 2.0 companies out there?

the media has a responsibility to be cynical about news, because otherwise it\’s just marketing hype and PR. The majority of reporting in the blogosphere is regurgitated press releases,
which would never stand up against standard of reporting of the traditional media.

And how quickly would people stop following news if they knew it would only be feel good stories about people, and journalists weren\’t trying to cut through the crap to find the real information.

While it\’s easy to complain about the cynical nature of the media, there is a reason behind it.

Maybe it\’s like bad news becomes good news in reverse because it\’s not happeneing to you.

It will stop when people stop watching. We all know that.

What we have to get rid of is the culture of being a victim. The culture that expresses itself as being \”devastated\” by anything and everything.

Sure if you flip a photog the bird when he snaps you, it will make the news. But that will be the end of it for most of us.

For your sake, I hope going on television and showing people that you are not vulnerable to their oddball beliefs is another way to get rid of the haunting.

As a former Dallas resident, I could count on D Magazine to attempt to rip into the vulnerabilities of politicians, business people, Mark Cuban, etc. Although most of the staff is roughly my age – they seem to speak better to my 57-year old Mom than to me.

I could count on a smaller magazine like CliffDweller in Oak Cliff to sing the praises of every person in that area – from the local politician to the restauranteur to the hotelier to soda shop owner. All positive, all the time to the point of annoyance. But that is their deal. People dig it. They need the business community to stay in business… blah, blah, enough.

This is why I hate politics and politicians. They have the SLAM campaigns where they dig up dirt on everyone and anyone and make it public knowledge.

I am 27 years old and it is pretty sad when I keep my children from Disney shows because of the scandals going on there.

The media wants to do away with heroes! What happened to the Nolan Ryan, Michael Jordan for our children today? They have no one to look up to and constantly bombarded with negatives and violence.

Now we want to ruin a mans life for fighting dogs Michael Vick. I am not saying its ok to fight dogs. Not one minute am I saying that. But is it worth putting a man in prison and costing the tax payers millions of dollars in legal fees and to house him in prison?

Why cant we bring back corporal punishment and prayer in our schools. Then maybe our kids would respect us and there would be less negative to report.

Maybe if the new reporters started reporting GOOD in the world, we could start making a positive change!

All I know is, there has to be a change.