“As for readers worldwide, blogs can act as the “man on the street,” supplying unfiltered eyewitness accounts about foreign countries.”
In Kline and Burnstein’s book Blog! it talks about the power blogs have on society and also how blogs are more and more becoming vital sources of information. In other words, where once there was an abundant number of foreign correspondants, blogs have taken over. The “man on the street” is essentially blogs providing information about foreign countries that would otherwise be unknown. Consider this, for example. If the news reporters here in America had barely any knowledge of the culture we are at war with, (well, they practically don’t, but that’s beside the point) they would then turn to blogs as a source of information. They could go to any number of Middle Eastern blog sites, because a great number exist and find out what the culture is like. Likewise, they could go to any other kinds of blogs pertaining to the Middle East and find information that would be of vital importance to them.