Times v. Newser

As I read the The New York Times and compare it to the other blogs that I have been reading, it is interesting to see how both are written about the same subjects yet the content seems to be filtered in a much more biased sense. It may be that I prefer one organization over the other, but the differences in the language used cannot be overlooked; and even the order of the different stories on their page. It does boil down in fact to who the editor’s and publishers are, but that does not make a difference as both blog companies are trying to entertain the same type of audience that each other compete for.

The World Newser is the same as the times in the fact that the main focus is the different news that affects our daily lives and allows people to respond to it. The New York Times has a specific writer do all the work on one blog so that it can be opinionated and also in my opinion controversial or stirs up the viewer’s mind. The relationship can be seen as separate but equal in the sense that there is the same topic with the same focus in getting the audience to react to the story, but the way both blogs approach the method of presenting different things are interesting in the sense that they are not afraid to form their own opinions and ideas for people to disintegrate.

Both blogs can be seen as working as a part of the press sphere as Jarvis called it by the fact that they are done by multiple persons and are aimed at the individual person rather that an audience as a whole. The “me” factor as I mentioned in my previous blog is a major component of today’s news and as evident in The World Newser blog the stories are put out to create a deep personal reaction from the reader and how it, as in the story, affects them in any sort of way. Rather than talking about the economy as a whole as done in previous years, the blogs that are written today are intended to give the audience an chance to let their side of the story come out and let them complain about prices or how they lost their job, etc. Nevertheless, the ecology of news has changed dramatically and both blogs have proven the theory of the news world’s transformation and as Sullivan so blatantly describes as the personal touch to every day events.