When connecting Jeff Jarvis’s post about the press-sphere and Andrew Sullivan’s post about why he blogs, it’s easy to notice how blogging can be considered one of the new ways of getting news. In Jarvis’s first model, he shows the news use to be, with all the news being filtered through the press before being released to us. But then in the next models, he shows how the press isn’t the only way to get news anymore. Blogging could be considered one of those new ways of getting news. Blogging is not something that is filtered through some kind of press; a person just puts the information on the internet and its there for everyone to read, whether it is true or not.
Blogging is sort of the opposite of what the last chart that Jarvis put in his post explains; the timeline of the process of a news story. In that chart it shows how the story is gathered and put together, then published. But a blog doesn’t go through a process like the chart shows. A blog is posted for the world to see without being edited or revised.
In the New Press-Sphere model, there are many different things that Jarvis has contributing as the source of our news, including work, government, peers, and many more. And though he doesn’t specifically have blogging as one of those sources, I believe it can fit in different ways with a few of them. Like I mentioned, blogging is not edited or revised, it is just someone putting information on the internet and its up to you to believe it or not. This is very similar to getting your news from peers and word of mouth. When someone tells you something, you just have to believe them since you have no way to confirm what they are saying. But what a blog has that word of mouth doesn’t are links. On most blogs, you can read the information they have, and then they will have a link posted so you can check it out for yourself. And both peers and links are part of the chart for the New Press-Sphere.
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