The blog that i chose was "Ohmynews." The blog is a different form of an online newspaper with a lot of information. It gets thousands of submissions everyday from ordinary people. This blog was created in South Korea and has a large impact on politics in South Korea. The blog has many different news articles, some from South Korea, but also news from other places in the world. The blogs themselves are not listed on the website you have to go to global voices online to read the blogs. The blogs are posted by ordinary people from all over the world. The topics that are blogged about relate to the articles posted on the website of "Ohmynews."
MacKinnons views and statements about "Ohmynews" are somewhat agreeable, it does not necessarily follow everything on the blogsite today. The only thing that i don't think corresponds with Mackinnons views, is that the blogs don't necessarily relate to the articles. I expected more out of the website with a lot of different opinions about the news that was currently going on that related directly to a specific article. The blogs relate to the news as a whole, which i didn't expect. I also expected the blogs to be based more on politics in South Korea, rather than news all over the world, since Mackinnon talked mostly about how blogs effected the last election of the South Korean president.
Of course, many will probably agree with the assertion that the blogs are a large impact on politics and alternative information, i felt it lacked politics, and was largely based on the alternative information.
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