A Favorite Passage

Journalism is expected to be objective and reliable, ... Blogs, on the other hand, are subjective and independent, and come with no guarantee of truth... Interestingly enough, a survey of blog readers by the advertising company Blogads showed that they visit blogs precisely because they see them as more credible than mainstream media (Rettberg 91-92).

While journalism is expected to be truthful and accurate, blogs are an independent variable in the writing world. However, in a recent survey conducted by Blogads, it was concluded that blog readers view blogs because the feel more reliable than mainstream media.


This passage is interesting to me because I feel like it somewhat points out the stupidity in America. Because blogs have no rules and regulations, fake blogs can easily be made up. Salam Pax was supposedly an Iraqi living in Iraq while America was invading, but no one knows this to be fact. Yes, there are many flaws to mainstream media, I'm thinking of the Watergate scandal, but these reports are still more credible than blog reports. Fiction, at times, can be hard to spot, so why trust anyone who blogs? Especially those who use psyedonyms, although people who use their "real name" could be lying just as frequently. Im concerned with where America is going if blogging really does become a new form of news communication and traditional sources i.e. television, newspapers, magazines, become obsolete.

Which blog?

My main interest is medicine. I hope to one day become a behavioral neurologist, so basically anything and everything about the brain interests me. Well basically the human body as a whole interests me, which is why I want to follow a blog about medicine. Now that I know exactly what blogging is (thank you Ms. Rettberg) I can see how blogging could be an effective tool in the medical field. I hope to learn about some current events taking place in the medical field which I would not have known without my new found skill (that would be blogging). However, I have had some difficulty finding a true blog focusing on medicine, which means I may have to resort to finding a blog centered around a different interest. I'll keep you posted.

Who am I as a writer?

As a writer I am a completer of assignments. Honestly, I have never been the type to write for fun. I attempted multiple times as a young woman to start diaries, but never got into them. Most of the time I find myself struggling to write. I think my much clearly and correctly when I speak. Getting my thoughts from my head onto a piece of paper is difficult. The editing and revising process is probably the single most important factor of writing to me. If I never completed the editing and revising process myself, most of my papers would be useless and unintelligible. I write because I have to.