How the blog relates to the class

In class, we have discussed how blogging has shifted some of the reliability for news away from the national media, and more towards blogs. Blogs give everyone an opinion, and this ensures that one news source's bias won't be the only piece you read on a topic. As Barlow pointed out, the central media isn't the only voice heard now. The average person is able to be heard. The internet has made it so that everyone, not just a select few can have their voices heard.

As shown in my last blog post, this is an important concept. Scouts have always played the crucial part in evaluating players. They go to watch the players play, and based off of their report, teams will decide whether they want to draft them or not. Blogging has taken some of that power away from scouts though. As shown in my last post, using numbers, one blog was able to predict Jeremy Lin before anyone else was. Blogging has changed the way sports are evaluated. Not only are there many more opinions out there, technology has allowed for these opinions to be knowledgeable. The internet has allowed any person to view any players statistics, and come up with their own way of predicting success.