In Tim Dunlaps article "If you build if they will come," he discusses how blogs are becoming and important part of public discourse. The media can only do so much, or in other I think it only goes so far, and the rest of the information we have to go out and search. The media can be biased and many times presents innacurate facts. Therefore, blogging creates this new "public intellectual" that Dunlop says explains facts to the "uninformed public, and can bring public debate back within coo-ee of those to whom it should belong anyway." Regarding the rainforest project, blogs I think do a better job of informing the uniformed citizen. The problem is of coure, that many do not where to go and search for such a blog. Informed citizens are the ones playing the role of the watchdog when forming these blogs and checking to see if the government as well as the organization is doing its job correctly. Reading other blogs on the rainforest, I have noticed how the watchdog role is more prominent in the blogs, as opposed to all the articles the media has produced on the rainforest project.