Instrument for Change

I could still remember the first time that I’ve learned about blogging, it was way back during my high school days. During that time, I was just so intrigued on why there are a lot of people, giving their spare time composing articles and load it up on the internet. The internet saga was just rising during my high school days, and blog sites are just one of the few things that are emerging from the wonderful world of worldwide web.
What is really blogging, or a blog? According to what I have understood in reading articles and definitions on the internet, it is a compilation of articles, journals, commentaries and just mere descriptions of events or persons, made by different kinds of people all over the world. There are a lot of blog sites in the internet, different topics discussed by people who are very patience in maintaining their blog sites, and surprisingly, a lot of people are becoming interested in reading and following a certain blog site, the emergence of blogs is like a wildfire.
Now, reacting on an issue about blog as the 5th estate, well, I’m very much agree in the media being the 4th estate, under the 3 most powerful system in the government, which is the executive, legislative and the judiciary, because media could manipulate the situations, they can create issues that could give good impressions to certain people, they could also damage a reputation of a well-known person. It is clearly seen how powerful the media is, it could influence every single person on earth, by just simply watching a television show, listening to radio program and reading current issues on newspaper, is a clear manifestations that we are influenced by the media. I beg to disagree that blog is being labeled as the 5th estate, well, I strongly agree that blogs are very powerful, it could also influence a persons’ view about a particular topic. For me, blog is a tool of media, it’s just an instrument used by media to reach people. Some media/journalists used blogging as their second weapons in firing an interesting yet controversial commentaries and issues about a particular person.
I believe that blogs add more spices to the media industry; it’s like an escape hatch for some media practitioners, because there are no rules in blogging, unlike in the television, script is limited, media people could not just say whatever they want to, because there are agencies who observes and follows TV networks and radio stations, in the print media, they have their editors who are also carefully selecting the words to put on a certain article.
Now, being part of the generation that is really into technologies and life is very much easier because of the technologies being invented and introduced, it somehow makes me feel good and fortunate. I really believe in the capabilities of the media to change the perception of the public, they have the ability to turn things around, and blogs, it’ll continue attacking and conquering minds of the public.