The Blog Of Blogs

Why are we so eager to know everything the moment it happens? Our unethical hunger towards gossip requires media that has the capacity to satiate our need for information. What better method to achieve this than blogs? Blogs travel quickly, they are uncensored and unedited (thus making them all the more enjoyable by people), and they are decorated with methods to "bring down [a] big-time politician or journalist", as Sarah Boxer from the New York Review of Books put it. This is all so people can be heard, so people can consider themselves famous. I agree with Boxer, the author of "Blogs": People who make fanatic remarks and crazy allegations are "link-whores". They need to know that someone has heard what they have said, and I believe that this is a modern common disorder. This is because the tolerance of the general public has declined. Blogs are commonly opinions about what people have to say about current events. Today, people have to make an extra effort to coexist with people who don't agree with them. They believe that if more people read their blogs, they are either right or they are famous (extreme bloggers often go for both). What I believe that the author of this blog is trying to say is that people will make anything up in order to make themselves be heard among the crowds... so that they are no longer just another opinion. People want their opinions to be heard among the crowds so that they can be sure that other people believe in the same thing, and what easier way to spread a fanatic opinion than to stretch truths beyond recognition. It is simply a matter of interest that is a hunger that grows exponentially, never being satiated, and always craving more information, in less amount of time. Hence, we have the blog.   

I have recently come across a pro-israeli blog condemning the anti-israeli propaganda. We will never be sure if these photographs were actually altered, or if the author has shown the "original copies" and the "altered copies" after he himself has staged them in an attempt to further condemn the anti-israeli effort. The blog link is http://jewishmayhem.com/?p=635. Blogs have the power of not only anonymity, but freedom, which people take advantage of by giving their radical opinions and backing them up with radical and often unproven evidence to manipulate the crowds. According to the blog, there are four main types of manipulation of photographs for propaganda's sake: "

	1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.
	2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.
	3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.
	4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

" People believe that everything that is taken a picture of must be true, so, hence, we have the power of the blog to condemn this.