| How are blogs changing the world? Book editor Tom Sumner joins Coy Barefoot on to discuss about how blogs have changed coverage of politics. He says people looking for political news may end up on a blog, and may not even know it.”The top-down model is being shifted so that people who have a genuine interest in a story can create their own little media center on their blog,” says Sumner. He says consumers have much more control over what stories they view and read, and that old media picks up on stories that are hits in the blogosphere. For instance, the controversy of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys was inflamed by bloggers like Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo. Coy helps track Virginia politics on the blog for the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. |