Exploring the Blogosphere

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Exploring the Blogosphere

My blog focuses on politics, and therefore it’s a political blog. It’s about the Illinois governor urging supporters to withdraw their support from the Nazi GOP candidate, a blog written by Cristina Cabrera on July 4, 2018. The blog targets the voters to whom are addressed by the governor and is obtained from the website http://talkingpointsmemo.com/. In the comparison of the blog and a news story, the blog more focuses on second-hand information about the onions of others while the news story is more of firsthand information with more details than the blog.

From the posts studied, I feel that the blogger lacks sufficient knowledge and experience regarding the subject of politics. The reason behind is that he quotes directly from the source of his message and most of the message is paraphrased for example: “The one thing I will say is the person, that guy, Johnson or whatever his name is, should not be on the ballot,” said the Illinois governor. To me, I would say that I trust the blogger though some people may differ with my opinion in that he might lack creativity, but as well the message has been delivered. According to the blog, the audience of the message is the voters, and the direct quotations have a higher impact of convincing the readers and thus more effective.

Concerning the overall design and look, the blogs don’t seem to be more appealing as they are cluttered with ads and other types of distracting websites that even may lead the reader to a different site other than the one he/ she had previously sought. If I were to make some improvements regarding design, the first thing I would enforce the appearance of the content, from scattered to more arranged design in simple paragraphs that are easy to comprehend. Again, I would reduce the number of ads in the blog or place them at the bottom of the blog. The more the ads, the more irritating and incomprehensible the blog is and therefore a reduction would be of great significance.

The blog allows for both positive and negative comment from the readers. The comments are influenced by the type of the message being communicated by the blogger. If it regards to a positive sensation to the people, then the comments from the audience will be positive while the negative message will attract a negative message from the audience. For example, in the case for the urge to withdraw support from the Nazi GOP candidate, the supporters of the governor will have positive comments while those from the Nazi candidate will feel frustrated and comment negatively.

Upon reading the blog, one thing I enjoyed is the short phrases from the blogger that passed a quick message regarding the topic at hand. From the heading, I was able to understand what the blog was about for example ‘Illinois Gov Says Voters Shouldn’t Support Dem over Nazi GOP Candidate’ and therefore new direct it was political. Among the things that I disliked from the blog is that it was too short and full of paraphrasing and direct quotations making it boring. Some of the points omitted are that the blogger would have provided a recap on what was going on to the extent of making the governor insist for the withdrawal of the voters’ support. In real life, the life gaps are not well addressed and therefore full of inadequacies.

A favorite blog was that of Illinois governor asking voters to withdraw support for the Nazi GOP candidate, and it stood out of the rest as it addressed the issues of democracy making the blog to be relevant. The politicians should not tell the voters on what to do despite being granted the freedom of speech and expression. The blog sells an idea and not a product, and the idea being sold is that of the Illinois governor of asking voters to withdraw their support. In the selling of this idea, the governor benefited concerning the message reached more audience from the blog compared to the time the speech was delivered.

Work Cited

Cabrera, C. LIVEWIRE: Retrieved from: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/illinois-governor-nazi-gop-candidate-arthur-jones. 2018.