With online news there doesn’t appear to be those restriction that large and well known institutions such as the BBC and The times news papers decide to print. News is obviously about gathering information but with online News we are given a “wider search” as Meikle implies, a bigger access to world affairs. Meikle is fair in suggesting that consumers have become “researchers” themselves, who sift through information posted on the Internet. With online news producers there doesn’t seem to be that pressure to involve exciting, shocking or dramatic which seems prominent with the like of broadcast and prints news of today, Therefore there doesn’t appear to be a great bias taken on from individuals who publish news within for example blogs they choose themselves what to write.
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refering to your comment that there doesnt seem to gbe that much bais in blogs that people write this might not always the case for example a person in Iraq might have a different view of what is happening over there as compared to an English blogger, this can be political or cultural bias and how some views are expressed can be questionalbele. i have to agree with your comment that shocking headlines and sensantionalism is not as common on blogs as compared to newspapers
ReplyDeletethe good thing with online news is that it is much more niche...some people may find the BBC news totally un-interesting, but may love to scoure all the blogs/open news. At least it gives us a choice, whether we want 'mainstream' news or more random (yet perhaps just as interesting for some) news.
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