HW 14: Response to Nick Denton

Although some might disagree with a lot of points that are brought up in Nick Denton’s interview, I seem to agree with mostly everything he says. Hence, when Nick explains why he only hires unknown writers because of their fight and eagerness to get the news out, I understand this point. Actually I don’t just understand this point, I agree with it. After all when you let people that have had no chance to showcase their talent, they usually try their hardest to get the job done to the highest of their capability. Furthermore, Nick also gave his opinion that in some cases bloggers can be more credible than newspapers but most of the time it is the other way around. For example when a person wants to learn more about global warming, they would trust an article they would see in The New York Times than on blogger.com. That is exactly how I would of went about getting information for global warming because we have more trust in newspapers. Since the beginning of our existence we have been getting our news from newspapers and it would take the majority of our population to change our viewpoints, and trust the blogging world for our news. Therefore I take sides with Nick in saying that it will a while or even never before blogging is recognized as a credible place for Americans to get their worldly news.