Comments on: Getting serious about blogging, 2 http://www.journeyguy.com/getting-serious-about-blogging-2/ Life, adventure and faith in south Arkansas Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Amy Ables Lawson http://www.journeyguy.com/getting-serious-about-blogging-2/#comment-73043 Amy Ables Lawson Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:09:12 +0000 http://www.journeyguy.com/?p=1601#comment-73043 But to clarify further.....I read a blog knowing that I'm going to hear the writer's opinion/thoughts/summation of a topic. I expect that. I don't expect it from the newspaper or the nightly news. But to clarify further…..I read a blog knowing that I’m going to hear the writer’s opinion/thoughts/summation of a topic. I expect that. I don’t expect it from the newspaper or the nightly news.

]]> By: Amy Ables Lawson http://www.journeyguy.com/getting-serious-about-blogging-2/#comment-73042 Amy Ables Lawson Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:07:32 +0000 http://www.journeyguy.com/?p=1601#comment-73042 I've been thinking about this post. I do think it's important to distinguish between reporting the news and INFLUENCING the news...that's the main problem I have with journalism today. I do think our society has a warped sense of what exactly is news and what is merely gossip. And quite honestly, I think our society as a whole wants to tell people how/what to think. I fear we're becoming a society that doesn't know what to think about anything until we're told what our opinion should be. I think the result is a dumbing down of our country. I don't want to know what a reporter's slant on the story is. I want him/her to give me ALL the facts and let me draw my own conclusions. In light of the way our media works, I'm making a conscious effort to teach my children how to think. I want them to use logic to pull out the actual facts of the story and distinguish those from the editorials that have become mixed in with the facts. I’ve been thinking about this post. I do think it’s important to distinguish between reporting the news and INFLUENCING the news…that’s the main problem I have with journalism today. I do think our society has a warped sense of what exactly is news and what is merely gossip. And quite honestly, I think our society as a whole wants to tell people how/what to think. I fear we’re becoming a society that doesn’t know what to think about anything until we’re told what our opinion should be. I think the result is a dumbing down of our country. I don’t want to know what a reporter’s slant on the story is. I want him/her to give me ALL the facts and let me draw my own conclusions. In light of the way our media works, I’m making a conscious effort to teach my children how to think. I want them to use logic to pull out the actual facts of the story and distinguish those from the editorials that have become mixed in with the facts.

]]> By: Mandy http://www.journeyguy.com/getting-serious-about-blogging-2/#comment-72293 Mandy Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:27 +0000 http://www.journeyguy.com/?p=1601#comment-72293 Preach it, Brotha Jeff! I whole heartedly agree. I mentioned in my last comment on this issue that I, myself, have been reconsidering what topics I post on my blog. Posting anything controversial is just plain scary. Finding a way to blog about something you are passionate about to INFLUENCE someone else to think like you (b/c obviously you think you are right.. not you.. but me lol)really can open you up to a lashing on the world wide web. I'm definitely becoming more sure on certain positions I hold, and less sure on others. The ones I feel Christ is nudging me into and practically throwing information at me about, I blog about. Not everyone agrees with everything I write, and I'm finally okay with that. That is a really hard concept for me.. that not everyone thinks I'm as smart as I do. ;) Mandys last blog post..<a href="http://peaceandcraziness.blogspot.com/2008/07/super-easy-way-to-be-greener-today.html" rel="nofollow">Super Easy Way to Be Greener Today</a> Preach it, Brotha Jeff! I whole heartedly agree. I mentioned in my last comment on this issue that I, myself, have been reconsidering what topics I post on my blog. Posting anything controversial is just plain scary. Finding a way to blog about something you are passionate about to INFLUENCE someone else to think like you (b/c obviously you think you are right.. not you.. but me lol)really can open you up to a lashing on the world wide web. I’m definitely becoming more sure on certain positions I hold, and less sure on others. The ones I feel Christ is nudging me into and practically throwing information at me about, I blog about. Not everyone agrees with everything I write, and I’m finally okay with that. That is a really hard concept for me.. that not everyone thinks I’m as smart as I do. ;)

Mandys last blog post..Super Easy Way to Be Greener Today

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