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My Response to Christeen

Christeen's Original Post

When I read Christeen's blog entry about mass communication in the modern world, I really understood what what she was saying.
Christeen stated that "You don't have to be an award winning author or director to get a message across." This was a statement I could understand and made sense for me. In our new era of technological advancements, we all have access to the Internet. To agree again with Christeen, to have access to an Internet connection is to have a massive amount of power right at your finger tips. Even I have the ability to mass communicate. In fact, I'm doing it right now. As I type this blog about one of my high school classmates entries for our first real project of our freshman year, it's being saved for anyone who can get to the Internet to see for years and years to come. Although it may seem unlikely, this very blog post has the potential to reach hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. It's crazy to think how easy it has become for anyone, in any place, at any time, to mass communicate whatever message they want to.
To some, it's a scary thought. That all people have the power to mass communicate whatever message they please. But I think it's amazing. It's truly astonishing to see how far we as people have come in the terms of mass communication, the media, and journalism as a whole.

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