Blogumentary Thoughts

I really enjoyed the documentary (Blogumentary) we watched in class last week. Part of what made it so interesting, I think, was the fact that the personal/humor aspect was brought into it (which is kind of the theory about blogs--they are personal yet political at the same time, well, some of them). It really made me think about how I personally feel about journalism as a whole. Since coming to the School of Journalism, I have become really disillusioned about the whole process. I feel that I have been taught to be so critical of the mass media that I can't even stand watching/reading anymore. I get most of my news from discussions I have with others who watch the news, and I find it a much more interesting/less frustrating way to get information. If there is a something I find particularly intriguing then I will go and try to find a story about it. Maybe some would call me uninformed, but how informative is it to get news from "reputable sources" that most of the time turn out to be biased and inaccurate? What I find nice about the blog world is that it is this grassroots movement where, yeah, people will be wrong but they can identify it and turn news into more of a conversation rather than someone talking at you. Maybe I am just frustrated that we are taught to be critical yet at the same time we must conform to the models that cause problems in the first place. That is just my opinion.