Leo Marx, and his theory that improved technology does not necessarily improve society, would probably believe that my thesis that blogs have changed the way that Americans receive news, and allow the populace to distribute news based on what they think is important.
Marx argued that improved technology sometimes may be detrimental to civilization and technology may be used to repress, not necessarily helping society. I think that he would believe that the distribution of news by more decentralized sources may lead to a less political influence on the news, and blogging has done just that. While some blogs are still greatly influenced by political views, the spectrum is no longer as specialized, such as liberal newspapers or conservative radio.
Marx would think that such a diverse group of sources for news will help to bring to the forefront of news what regular Americans think is important, instead of what biased news sources want us to believe.
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