HW 19 Applying Graff chapter 10 to Drenzer and Farrells "Web of Influence"

After reading “Web of Influence” the Foreign Policy article by Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell (Kline and Burstein 83-97) I found the paragraph that had talked about how blogs affect politics in regimes where there is no thriving independent media sector to be very interesting and important. For example, it had talked about how in many countries there were few ways to express your feelings on politics but blogs had become a popular way to do so because they were harder to control than television and newspaper. Although blogs aren’t as easy to control the governments are still finding ways to block blogs by restricting internet or by using the punishment of others as examples. In other words in the next couple of years blogs in other countries are going to be just as easy to control as television and newspapers. I believe that this is importance because politics play a huge role in how your country is ran and I think that everyone should have a say in what they believe in. In conclusion I think that its is important that people are using blogs as a way to express there feelings and I don’t think that should be taken away from them.