Huffington Post vs. New York Times

Reading both the New York Times and Huffington Post have given me a new perspective on the connection between blogs and the more traditional forms of press. In the New York Times you get up to date information on current issues, written in a clear and intelligent way. When reading the paper you know that you are reading information from credible sources and competent writers. Reading blogs for news are similar in many ways. You still to get to read information, often from credible sources and competent writers. However, with blogging you get a more connected feel between the writers and the readers. As you read a blog post, you can feel yourself connecting to the writer, because as a blogger he or she is just a regular person giving their take on the world. They don’t have a lofty title of editor-in-chief, separating you from the writer. This connection provides you with a way to better bring the news into your life, allowing yourself to connect with people and issues all across the world.

Still getting news from the press does provide you with a kind of guarantee that the information that you are getting is accurate. With editors and fact-checkers working for newspapers, they give you accurate information in a well-written way.  In this way the press and the blogs work together to provide the general public with information, giving both the credible, detailed reports along with the more opinion-centered version of the news. Both the press and the blogs are necessary to the “press sphere” proposed by Jeff Jarvis. Both contribute to the flow of information that is constantly coming at the general public from the internet, from the government, from private companies, from coworkers, from friends, and from the press. This interconnectivity provides a reader with a full grasp of the news from the comments of strangers to the words of witnesses. With the many different sources of news, we are better able to connect to events going on across the world.