There is a thrill that comes from instantly posting your own thoughts and ideas on the Internet for the world to see. It’s a little bit scary and at the same time very important to do so. Blogging is instantaneous, there is no approval of sources, or years to revise and edit—there is only that moment to write and submit knowledge for the world. It is my understanding that Andrew Sullivan views blogging as a valuable source of writing because it is one of the few ways for a blogger to be completely exposed to their readers.
Sullivan makes a good point in arguing for blogging as a genuine source of writing by bringing up the honesty that goes into it. There is an openness to blogging that isn’t present in new papers, magazines, or on TV news reports. “Blogging requires an embrace of such hazards, a willingness to fall off the trapeze rather than fail to make the leap” (Sullivan 3). Sullivan consistently writes about the closeness that he feels with his readers because of the honesty he expresses while writing his blog. It seems as if the reason he finds blogging so legitimate stems from the freedom of bloggers to respond to an event personally and immediately. He mentions the vividness that came along instantaneously with the events of 9/11. The freedom for he to connect with all his readers in a matter of seconds in a way that a newspaper and TV news report can never do. Blogging is its own form of writing, very similar to a diary, yet public to the world. It allows anyone to share his or her thoughts in a matter of seconds and allows honesty—good or bad to flow across the
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