HW#3 My writting response to "toward a more paticipitory democracy"

Many Americans today tend to believe that blogging is beginning to have an effect on political views. In our reading it mentions various examples of how political blogging is affecting our democracy today. It was TheMemoryHole.com blog that scooped the media by publishing defense department photos of the caskets of the soldiers who had died in the Iraq War. Which Bush preferred to keep from the public. The DailyKos blog was the first to reveal that a bush campaign ad called "Whatever It Takes" used a photograph of a presidential speech that had been digitally altered to make the crowd seem larger than it really was. Then there was BlogActive.com that first published audio tapes of Republican congressman Edward L. Schrock, a vocal opponent of gay rights and key supporter of several anti-gay laws, soliciting sex acts from men on a telephone sex line. I believe that if some people were to read these blogs they may have a new opinion on some of these people. So that’s why I think blogging is beginning to have an effect in our political world today.