Thursday, May 26, 2011

blogging in the real world

What are the problems with relying on blogs for your news?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/reports-john-edwards-may-face-criminal-charges/2011/05/25/AGTZJOBH_blog.html

42 comments:

  1. blogs can be opinionated, and are written by people who may not always check their sources.

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  2. People can be biased and their opinion can differ from yours also their resources might not be checked and be reliable so, it would make it hard to read a blog without questioning a few things.

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  3. blogs are usually opinion based so instead of getting facts, your getting someones opinion and they might not have gotten the story 100% correct.

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  4. Blogs have bias, for example a Mets fan would talk highly of the Mets, but not any other team. This bias would lead to opinions and speculation that are not supported by facts. Therefore people believing the blog will be mis-informed. Mis-informed people may lead to problems within society and politics by creating pointless arguments wasting time and money.

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  5. Blogs are very biased because everyone has their own opinion.

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  6. blogs are opinion and the person that are posting something usually have no other background information on the topic. They usual just go with what the article says, If the article says that some person is a criminal than that what most of the bloggers will say

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  7. Blogs are meant to express specific opinions, and people should not get their information based on someone else's ideas. People understand things in different ways, so I think it's important not to be influenced by other people but to gain your own knowledge on the subject in order to have your own justified opinion. Someone else's blog is not proof to another's ideas, as they are not typically factual.

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  8. not all blogs are factual thats why its not good to believe them and go for the actual evidence and truth of the subject

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  9. You have to make sure that you get the real information, not what you hear or see. Sometimes theres rumors and that could make it difficult for you.

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  10. Most blogs only express how the Author of the blog is feeling. not actually how everyone else see's it. i wouldn't depend on it because it may or may not be true and before i believe something i like to make sure its a sure thing.

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  11. The problems with relying on blogs for the news is often that people put their own thoughts and opinions into things along with fabricating the truth sometimes.

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  12. Blogs are mainly your opinion and how you feel about a certain situation. Also for other people to see how others think and can interact about it.

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  13. Blogs are mainly about what people think about stuff and their opinion about it. Also for people to see how others think about things and to interact.

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  14. blogs are never really based on facts or the truth. its usually based on what people think is right or wrong. its about peoples opinions on what they think about news or stories around the world.

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  15. You cannot not rely on blogs for your news because rarely do people blog actually facts. Blogs are opinionated. NOT THE NEWSPAPER

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  16. Blog are mostly about how people are feeling you cant really relay on them until you find out if its really true or not.

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  17. One problem is that blogs can be biased. It really depends on the source you get the information from to know if it's reliable or not. Blogs are often based on the author of the blogs views, a blog may nee be truly truthful.

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  18. Like most people above said, blogs are made up of opinions and supported by assumed facts. Qoute TetyanaN "Blogs are mostly opnionated. NOT THE NEWSPAPER"

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  19. Blogs can be opinionated with little fact.

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  20. Blogs are part fact and part fiction. It can sometimes repeat false information because the blogger can get there info from an unreliable source

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  21. people usually state there opinions and opinions aren't usually true based with people think. Like everyone else said above, their supported by "assumed facts"

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  22. you can retrieve false information because most of whats on blogs is just opinions

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  23. The trouble with relying on blogs for news is that most blogs are based on opinion, unlike actual news stories. It's difficult to know whether or not what you're reading is true.

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  24. The problem with blogs is that it could be based upon one's own opinion. The source can be stretched by opinions of others.

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  25. Blogs MAY contain facts, but mainly blogs are used as an open forum to peoples opinions (mainly the users opinion).

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  26. i agree with jenny because it depends on where the information is coming from

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  27. I agreed with the first comment that Kevin said. A blog is more opinionated there for its difficult to tell the difference between something factual to a non-factual opinion.

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  28. Blogs are part fact and part fiction. It can sometimes repeat false information because the blogger can get there info from an unreliable source

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  29. one must go directly to the source and then for future information can rely on blogs

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  30. Blogs can contain facts, but they are usually all opinion based and the facts are dismissed.

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  31. Blogs are usually almost always made up of opinions, facts are used, but, its hard to see the difference. Blogs are never really factual.

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  32. Blogs are part fact and part fiction. It can sometimes repeat false information because the blogger can get there info from an unreliable source

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  33. You can never rely on blogs about news because many blogs can give you false evidence. Even the news can give you false evidence sometimes. The news people could make mistakes and accuse someone of something that they didn't really do.

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  34. Blogs can tend to be filled with fake information most times and opinion based. Most people are biased when it comes to posting a blog or even commenting on one. This can also lead to arguments between others due to their opinions being different in a blog.

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  35. BLOGS ARE FACTS AND OPINION WRAP UP IN ONE THING AND ITS A WAY TO GET YOUR IDEA OUT THERE FOR ALL TO SEE O.O

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  36. Even though blogs may have facts, they are mostly based on the opinion and bias of the author, which means blogs may not be the best place to look for news.

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  37. The problem with relying on blogs as a news source is that while the story itself may be true the way the story is written is usually completely biased depending on the blog.

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  38. The problem with relying on blogs as a news source is that while the story itself may be true the way the story is written is usually completely biased depending on the blog.

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  39. Blogs are meant to be trusted because they promise the most reliable information. Sometimes however the truth is stretched a little to gain a wider audience.

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  40. The problems with relying on blogs for news is that blogs can be false because the person might not know the full facts. With a regular new article you can depend on it to be always true.

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  41. BLOGS ARE FACTS AND OPINION MOST OF THE TIMES.

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  42. blogs can be all the wrong information

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