i hate my thesis!

ok...just trying to vent here. i'm really disliking this thesis topic. i wanted to study media coverage of the supreme court. somehow, during the course of writing my literature review on that, i got over into this dark world of blogs. my professor in charge suggested maybe doing a study on how blogs cover the supreme court differently than mainstream media. ok, that's nice, but do bloggers really even pay attention to the supreme court!?!? no, is my guess. so i'm thinking i'm going to have to take the supreme court out of it period...and look at the top circulated newspapers and compare what issues are being covered to the most influential blogs (probably using technorati or feedster or something like that to determine them...) so this is kind of interesting. i'm going to test agenda setting theory to this new world of blogs. but i don't really know if i consider blogs as news sources. i know some people are using blogs as their news sources (that's why technorati and others like it are in business....) but do they have an agenda setting function?? i just don't think so...and that's going to be hard to argue. i'm so frustrated. this sucks. :(

info on blogs--help!

So I just re-shifted my master's thesis project to looking at blogs. I was going to do just media coverage of the Supreme Court, but my advisor suggested looking into blogs. I think I'm going to do a content analysis of mainstream media vs. blogs in what cases/issues/justices they pay the most attention to. If anyone has any suggestions/comments/help I'd appreciate it. E-mail me at jennyb1780@yahoo.com. Thanks!!

Hi!

Hi--I just started this blog.