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In the World of Blogs the News is Getting Old

25 August 2005 2 Comments

Now, you’re probably wondering what planet I’ve been on. Of course news is out there, I realize that. But what I am finding is an influx of blogs rather than the news. For example, I enjoy reading true-crime news stories. So let’s say you enter a search for Natalee Holloway (the young woman missing in Aruba) at google under their news link. Rather than finding links from news affiliates, I find links to people’s blogged opinions on the case. I don’t want blogs. When I click a link that says ‘News’, give me the news.

I am not saying that blogs are a bad thing. I think it is great that people have an outlet to express their views and opinions but I think it should be kept separate from the news. “Real” news is watered down enough with a conservative bias, a liberal bias, and editorials that we really do not need something else to add to that mixture.

Bottom line: Blogs should stay and the news should stay but google needs to add a search option for blogs and keep it separate from the news.

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Rufus said:

Given that I don’t usually care about the news, it gives me great joy to have Google lead perfect strangers to my blog so they can read my thoughts on the world. It gets even better for me when I can lure them into inadvertently reading my rants about laborious bowel movements and stale cheese when they actually wanted real information. Overall, the current setup works for me. Besides, if I called up the stations they would probably send out a reporter to cover my stories on the six o’clock news anyway for lack of other filler. Then people would intentionally come looking for my worthless drivel.

# 18 September 2005 at 12:00 am

Jen said:

You should call all the news outlets and see if they’d come out and do a story…just make something up. I think they’d do it.

# 19 September 2005 at 12:00 am