Old press New BloggingP

Sullivan discuss his reasoning why he blogs and what it actually means to him. Jarvis shows us that there we as readers are straying away from the publishing companies and more towards a broader range of places to obtain our news. What is the similarity between the two articles? Are there any similarities if any? I choose to say that there are a few similarities here and there. Sullivan discusses tells us that one of the reasons why he blogs is because there is a feedback aspect to it. Instead of writing a paper and having it go out to the readers only to be criticized behind the authors back blogging allows the autor to receive feedback on any piece that he or she write. In Jarvis’s diagrams we see a linear chart where the news goes to the press, and the press informs us. However we see that there is no circle and that the informed are not putting anything back into the press. People like Sullivan are beginning to destroy this chart and making it more of a circular aspect where the readers also have a role in the news.
Another chart in Jarvis’s article shows the readers surrounding themselves with all types of sources. A reason readers might want to get their news from a different source is because they are tired of having the same opinion that they always get. Blogging is a different style where Sullivan says “You feel as if you know bloggers as they go through their lives, experience the same things you are experiencing, and share the moment.” This is contrary to simply getting the news from the press. In a sense Sullivan is adding more places to where we as readers can get our news.
Furthermore, we know that as readers that if we stick to the press we are only receiving one side of the story. Generally we never get different views or perspectives on one story when watching the news. Sometimes we don’t even hear about certain stories. Sullivan says that “Some of this material—e-mails from soldiers on the front lines, from scientists explaining new research, from dissident Washington writers too scared to say what they think in their own partisan redoubts—might never have seen the light of day before the blogosphere.”. With blogging however we are now able to be informed about different subjects from all sorts of views.
Blogging seems to be shutting down the old style of how we receive our news. With the internet publishing is a very simple thing that is free. With that the expectations of the readers have changed. We no longer want one side of the story, or even a biased view of it. We don’t want to hear about what somebody else thinks is important. Instead we want to read what WE feel like reading. The readers wants opinions, the readers want variety, the readers want the real news.