(With my last two entries, I've had trouble with the Blogspot website. On more than one occasion, for some reason, I've been barred from posting. If anyone has any solutions, help would be appreciated.)
The first link I found, I found through Google search: "current events oriented news blog." This blog is about the strict crackdown on international students from Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education has brought home 512 of their students that are part of the 42,000 Saudi students that participate in being educated abroad. Apparently, these few hundred students were struggling academically where ever they were internationally studying.
Also using a Google search, I found a news e-zine concerning a ground-breaking upcoming child & youth program at Douglas College. Douglas College in Vancouver is offering a program that works with Aboriginal children. They're doing this in hopes to reconcile with the First Nations, Inuit, & Metis peoples, & strengthen already strong ties to the community. Many different organizations & groups are all working together to make this innovative program succeed.
The blog & the e-zine, like any two things, had their similarities & differences. Although quite similar, I found the blog to be a little bit more professional & effective. They were both informative, but I feel the blog delivered more to the reader. The blog was also easier to find on the internet. Thankfully, they were both quite simple to read. The events I read on weren't the same, but they both dealt with specific furthering of some kind of academia. Both of the sources of information seemed trustworthy. With anything found on the internet, credibility is always a question though. I have no real way to decipher if what I read is accurate or not. Although a print source could be just as deceiving as an e-zine, or news blog, I'd be much quicker to trust them. I think a traditional form of print has to undergo many more checks & balances than something published onto the uncensored, not-so-unadulterated world wide web.
Although these fields affect the world of journalism, I don't believe this research supported nor unsupported my thesis. This module is directly related to both blogging & journalism, but not whether blogging affects the world of journalism. Because this model doesn't support nor unsupport my original thesis, I don't wish to change it. Blogging still drastically affects the 'journalism-sphere'.
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I agree with you that it is easier to trust a print source versus something on the internet. The blog and ezine I found were more opinioned-based, so they are looking to report stories that support their opinion, and avoid the stories that contradict them. I feel a print source has to be willing to look at all sides of a story and tell all the facts instead of a few facts that support their ideology.
I thought it was interesting how you liked the blog over the e-zine, blogs are sometimes more easily presented. I do agree with you over the credibility issue. Anybody can post a blog (like we are) so its hard to know if someone or thing is legit. Maybe doing additional research on the authors? But that takes even more time as well...
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