Blandness of some blogs

Although I'm not a fan of shock for shock's sake, I do feel that some blogs and videoblogs are in danger of not being authentic nor challenging enough.

I mean, what is the point of a blog that attempts to be accepted by the status quo? Isn't the whole point of blogging and videoblogging to avoid the bland, antiseptic reporting that the common media uses?

I feel there's a shift happening in the media. There was a news item in the papers the other day featuring pixillated photos of some of the carnage of the London bombings, and I wonder, sometimes, about the function and perceived necessity of such carefully edited, made to not offend reporting. Who does it serve?

Is it really appropriate that we don't see bits of bodies strewn across pavements? The ambulance and fire crews, police, doctors, and people on the scece have to see these things. Why are the general public denied access to the sights of these horrors?

Of course they're awful things to have to see, but I can't help thinking that the trauma that the people who actually see these horrors is heightened by the denial that the general public have in accepting the reality of such incidents.

Whereas the public can go on with their daily life just a few days after reading about such events in such carefully presented, inoffensive ways, others have to face the images of the reality night after night. They become isoltated and traumatized by the things they have to witness alone.

So in a sense the general public become mild accomplices to the perpetrators of the horrors, by refusing to accept the magnitude of the offence itself.

I like to think that blogs might finally offer a far more direct, uncencored view of reality.

After all, what really is the point in censoring reality at all?

This isn't to say, of course, that a blog need contain just horrors and brutal reality. But that it has a balance, and that the balance might contain absolutely anything that is real in this universe.

If I can do that in this blog, then that's great.