Wednesday, October 28, 2009
News and blogs.
That was odd. This blog just posted randomly. I hate blogger. Well I hate blogging too. Blogging can cover the news but it is mainly the conversation of the author who wrote it. Blogging can cover any topic. Some bloggers write about what they had for dinner. In relation to them being a part of a news sphere, it is certainly possible. Blogs can be news coming from our peers. The only problem is the fact that most of the bloggers get their information from the press. These writers don't sent in the middle of congress and listen in on the meetings and report on it. They find articles on the web and watch the tube and find out information. If you read a blog for news you might as well and go talk to your grandmother who has just good enough vision and hearing to watch to TV and get the news from her dimensia stricken brain and get the news from her. It could be just as accurate. That's one thing that I didn't understand about Jarvis' article about the news sphere. Most of the time you still get your information from the media or news, it just comes second hand. Relating the news sphere to Sullivan's article on "Why [he] blogs" is just as simple as stating that blogging is a part of the news sphere. Sullivan writes blogs for the challenge of keeping up with the current news that he finds. We read the blogs and find out what he interpreted the media to be saying. Why Sullivan blogs is to keep up with the news.
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Good observation about the dependency of the blogosphere on the traditional media. Some of the main sources remain the same.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that you hate blogging. But somewhat ironically, a rant about hating blogging is a perfect fit for blogs. The rant style suits them.