Web 2.0 truth

There are a few different advantages to Web 2.0 technologies, and the biggest of those is that it gives a voice to a large group of people who before the advent of these changes would have never had a chance to have their views heard, as well as allowing political candidates a voice beyond the mass media. For Example, John McCain has openly admitted that he does not use computers, whereas Barack Obama not only e-mails, but there is also a blog maintained by his campaign, which gives them an opportunity to speak directly to people on the internet, because mass media can create a distorted view, especially of particular incidents. This gives a man at a computer an impressive voice, if in fact he is speaking on topics that people are concerned about, and is one of the true benefits of web 2.0, but is also one of the dangers, because with the mass media, there is at least peer review, and an untruth will usually be discredited fairly quickly, as in the instance of Working-Families for Wal Mart, and as long as this kind of expose continues, it may turn these kind of newer technologies into a viable source for news.