Blog Post #4

I usually gather my news information from a variety of places because I am aware of biases. I primarily watch the news on television unless I am trying to find more in depth coverage on a specific current event. I watch CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN. I have not however read news from the blogoshpere of journalists. I listen to NPR on the radio and also have the New York Times on my iphone as an application. If I want to learn more current events from South of the border I will tune into Galavision or TV Azteca and get the news from there, especially if it is concerning the cartel activities. BBC also offers an outside the country perspective on American current events.

Our perspectives change depending on the amount of information readily available to us. You do have to consider that certain news stations a bias towards a particular party. For example, CNN is bias toward liberal democratic and independent views. Fox News is bias toward conservative news. Keeping this in mind you know what agenda each news station is trying to push, therefore the more news you gather from different news stations the closer you get to a no bias story and closer to the facts and less te opinion. With the exception of C- SPAN because they have a variety of credible guests who are experts in the topics they discuss. The more information from different news stations the better.

The information gathered today according to Danah Boyd in "The New Blogocracy" will be more varied with regard to opinion:

"the bloggers are piquing everyone's curiosity because, unlike the thousands of journalists who have also descended on the Fleet Center, they aren't entrenched in the culture they are observing. Thus they see, and allow us to see, the convention from a new perspective."

Although there is a problem with this kind of reporting because it provides individual biases from the bloggers. And also less of a clear distinction between which bloggers have what biases if they are not labeled to be bias toward one opinion or another. But the bloggers are not all bad because if anything they are covering the same stories the news cover but also supplement the news stations with different perspectives. I do not believe bloggers will take over the news stations. It seems to me that the information we gather today is more fragmented in the fact thet there are so many more perspectives accompanied by opinions from so many different sources.