But your response will never take the same priority that their stories and opinions take. Stories in today's mainstream media that actually inspire discussion or a desire to talk back to the medium are usually bad from the point of view of the market-hungry editor or producer. When a viewer or reader does not agree with what a medium has to offer and has no means by which to make his own opinions known, he will ultimately turn off the television or close the newspaper out of frustration. Relatively newer technologies such as CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web are susceptible to the same problem, but only the Web has the potential of avoiding it. The Web, however, could be a two-way street.
Every user can make opinions known, and to everyone else, through Web pages.
However, there's an obvious problem with precedence in these opinions on the Web. If the concept is carried further, and the group annotation server is used by the whole Web community, we have global annotations. In this case, the Web becomes a viable medium in which discussion can occur and in which ideas can be expressed by everyone. If you disagree with Alan Braverman's claims that The Bad Examples are the best rock group in the world, for example, you can put your comments right at the bottom of his Bad Examples home page. This medium also has built-in checks against programs like American Maniacs , since there is almost no way to tolerate having just one reporter asking questions when every person has the technology to join in.